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Thousands of employees in the US Department of the Interior are using accounts that are easily hacked
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
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If a password as rudimentary as "password-1234" satisfies the complexity requirements, I think that some blame should be shared by the IT team in charge of account security...
My wife works for the govt and says the password rules also require being changed every 90 days for her, which has been proven to cause weak passwords and/or people writing them down because they can’t remember their current one.
The govt uses pretty antiquated password security guidelines, this article is no surprise.
This is the most likely cause. My work has this too, but it's every 30 days, and you can't use the same password as any of your last 21 passwords. Which means I need 21 unique passwords. So it's Password1, Pasword2, etc until Password 21, when I then loop back around. Great job security team!
Which also means your company is storing your old passwords which is a big security issue
My company's IT department is terrible. Nothing is done right. And they're a multi-billion dollar company.
Not necessarily, it could mean they’re storing the old salted hashes.
I’m pretty sure this is a setting in Windows group policy, I assume Microsoft does it correctly.
Passwords are the weak link here. Microsoft figured out all you need to keep an account secure is 2FA, to the point they offer password-free account access.
Password-1234 is over 8 characters, has an uppercase character, a lowercase character, a number, and a special character.
Looks fine to me.