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Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Happy New Year: your password sucks

The tale, as retold by an IT support mate of mine over one too many beers recently, of the user who swore her password was ******** as that’s what the login screen said is about as likely to be true as any other IT support shaggy dog story, it did get me to thinking about the true cost of password insecurity.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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