Tag: password security

A Right Royal Security Blunder

November 21, 2012

Yesterday’s Guardian reports of an interesting royal IT security failure, when a supposedly non-problematic article of Prince William at work also revealed a large piece of paper with a military login and password clearly displayed in the background. (Guardian’s photo at http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Politics/Pix/pictures/2012/11/20/1353420459724/Prince-William-chats-with-010.jpg) UK’s MoD has since urgently changed their passwords, but the lax attitude towards … More A Right Royal Security Blunder

Passwords, passphrases, and big numbers

January 17, 2012

Way back in the 1990s, during the Q&A session after an EICAR presentation on social engineering, there was an animated discussion arising from some slides I’d included on password selection and usage. Some wondered why we were still discussing and promoting password strategies when there were (and are) better alternatives to static passwords. Timeslip… Before … More Passwords, passphrases, and big numbers