Tag Archives: Passwords
The Pain of Password Changes
Loved this article (click through) about the impact of regular password changes on businesses. Big enterprises that force their workers to change their access passwords on a regular basis, and adhere to complex rules when they do, might be their own worst enemy. via Mandatory Password Changes Costs Billions in Lost Productivity – Security – [...]
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 [...]