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Over 40,000 admin portal accounts use 'admin' as a password (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Over 40,000 admin portal accounts use 'admin' as a password::Security researchers found that IT administrators are using tens of thousands of weak passwords to protect access to portals, leaving the door open to cyberattacks on enterprise networks.

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[–] 34 points 2 years ago (10 children)

upgrade to, "Admin1!"

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    hunter2

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    What does this say? All I can see is *******

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I think I can say this now because it's been 10 years. But in one of my old jobs, I set a new windows administrator password for all assets across the organization. Previously it was 8 characters with a known word with an exclamation point added at the end.

    I got the approval to set a new password that would be secure but easy to remember for the IT guys that would be using it on a daily basis. They complained about my first two choices, so I said fuck it and changed it to F0rH315ThEKwi$atzHad3rach!

    I could remember it just fine. Still do to this day lol. They complained about a 14 character password before and I was tired of trying to get them on board.

    As soon as I left for greener pastures, I heard they changed the password to something easy again. Oh well, not my problem anymore.

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