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Over 40,000 admin portal accounts use 'admin' as a password (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For he is the kwisatzhaderach?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, a reference to Dune. I had just re-read the first three books and it came to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn’t you work at NASA ?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

No? Not sure where you got that from lol.