Tag Archives: Online
Password Management – Epilogue
It has been a little over a week now since the Twitter password hack, which we now know to have been hack allowed by a system design flaw in the authentication system used by them, combined with human factors. A standard dictionary attack was used with a list of known words (combined with single or [...]
Password Management
The recent Twitter hacks and the password change that ensued brought to mind approaches that are followed for password management. Now please forgive the heresies I am about to commit. The standard approach to password management is to have a complex and different password per service and change it often… like once a month. This [...]