Ahem:
A person claiming responsibility for the breach of Denmark's Central Register of Persons (CPR) says they gained access through an IT company's account protected by the password "123456."
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I mean, don't these people go to movies?
So let me bottomline this for the Tech Nerds. Hollywood has known since 1987 that this is a bad password.
Hollywood.
1987.
So since the script was probably written in 1986, this has been the subject of silver screen mockery for forty years.
Sorry to the good folks of Denmark. It could be worse, though - Sweden has had people laughing at it for a good decade longer.
5 comments:
I will guarantee there was a nepo or immigrant hire on the project team that couldn't remember any password more complex than that...
The security team got tired of being raked over the coals every time Ms. Dumbf*cksdotter whined to upper management an actually secure password was 'too hard to remember'.......
Your advice about creating a memorable password using the first letters of a song's lyrics or phrase with numbers added that are easily remembered has stood me in good stead for a long time now.
They say the combination to every safe is written down somewhere within six feet of the safe.You may find the secret computer password written on a Post-It note in someone else's desk where their computer is. Ask me how I know this.
I have about 30 passwords with different rules about what constitutes a valid password which makes it impossible to remember them. And I don't trust password managers either since they are big tech which probably have admin passwords of 654321 which will definitely fool hackers looking for 123456. Thus, I must write them down using a secret code known only to me. I have been affected by a number of system breaches and every single one was on the other end, not my end. I would submit that the system isn't working and constant doubling down by password Nazis is making it worse. How about some consequences for hackers. Arrest them and lock them up. If they are beyond our reach, in Moldova or somewhere, drone them.
Surely you understand that MOST of those hackers are working for "intelligence" services as part of Five Eyes/Nine Eyes/Fourteen Eyes sewer and therefor cannot be touched!!!
@matism You have a point about political surveillance but they won't be stopped by passwords either. A lot of hackers are just in it for the money. I got burned (credit card cancelled when I was traveling) by the Target hack. They had a sophisticated system and simply ignored all the lights and sirens. Blue Cross compromised my medical records which I really don't care about but some people do. I suppose intelligence agencies could be behind ransom ware as a secret funding source. Certainly they developed a lot of the hacking tools used as the Wikileaks disclosure demonstrated. But again these hacked software not individual accounts alleged protected by passwords.
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