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During a recent password audit at a company, it was found that a receptionist was using the following password: “MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofySacramento” When asked why she had such a long password, she said she was told that it had to be at least 8 characters long and include at least one capital…
Posted on February 23, 2010 at 11:29 AM by root · Permalink
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In: Education, Security · Tagged with: passwords
Why Strong Passwords Are Important
Most systems out in the world are secure. Very secure. Thousands of administrators and technical personnel apply patches and configurations to millions of systems throughout the world on a daily basis. In August 2009, someone hacked into Google, but not through a technical vulnerability within the Google infrastructure. A hacker found a personal email account. [...]
Posted on February 10, 2010 at 8:52 AM by root · Permalink
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In: Education, Management, Security · Tagged with: awareness, id theft, Management, passwords, protection, safeguard, Security
In: Education, Management, Security · Tagged with: awareness, id theft, Management, passwords, protection, safeguard, Security