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Passwords are like women

I don’t know if this was posted by someone else somewhere else before (probably it was), but that’s what I came up with yesterday, while explaining our password policy to one of the (male) colleagues....

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All credit card PIN codes in the world leaked!!!

All credit card PIN codes in the world leaked!!! The linked document contains all PIN codes for all credit cards from all banks in the world! Just check the numbers and see if your PIN codes are there...

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Microsoft takes password security to the next level

Microsoft takes password security to the next level I’ve spotted this link somewhere online, and I think this is funny. Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat...

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Identity

xkcd knows how my days at work go…

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The passwords are officially obsolete

Slashdot is reporting the story: a cluster of five, 4U servers equipped with 25 AMD Radeon GPUs communicating at 10 Gbps and 20 Gbps over Infiniband switched fabric. Gosney’s system elevates password...

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SSH dynamic black list

Slashdot runs the post on how bots are now trying higher ports for SSH password guessing.  This is not a problem for those who do key-based authentication, but for those who have to have password...

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WordPress passwords and brute force

WordPress passwords and brute force From the man himself: Here’s what I would recommend: If you still use “admin” as a username on your blog, change it, use a strong password, if you’re on WP.com turn...

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Tek Security Group’s Password Repository

Tek Security Group’s Password Repository In this repository you will find helpful authentication brute forcing files. These files include known password defaults, usernames, common and specialized...

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PHP – Password Exposed Helper Function

Password Exposed Helper Function is a tiny PHP library that helps checking user passwords against the Have I Been P0wned website API. This is quite common new functionality on many websites and...

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