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A British Bank Bans a Man's Password

2008-08-29 10:44:04 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...password had been changed when a call centre staff member told him his code word did not match with the one on the computer I thought it was actually quite a funny response," he said But what really incensed me was when I was told I could not change it back to 'Lloyds is pants' because they said it was not appropriate The rules seemed to...
 
Tags: password, change, change customer passwords, bank, call centre staff, employee, computer systems, security password, word
 
 
 
 
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Password policies. Once again.

2007-09-04 22:14:00 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...password polices and the out-of-box defaults came up. The poster lamented a number of things: that Microsoft doesn't enable account lockout by default, that we don't have a built-in mechanism for automatically disabling unused accounts, that the 42-day default expiration is troublesome. Here's my response; figured that it would make for a...
 
Tags: account, enable account lockout, password, account lockouts, disable account lockout, 42-day default expiration, default, expiration, password expires
 
 
 
 
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Password Minder 1.5.0.10 Released

2008-04-12 15:49:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
...password dialog to be more reasonable: it now by default specifies a 12-char password, not the 20 it used to - most websites can't handle a password that long. I also removed the lower case 'l' and punctuation, with a button that allows you to add back in the puncutation marks if you want One last minor thing - I added AcceptsReturn=true to...
 
Tags: password, 12-char password, password dialog, master key safe, tools page, main form, readme file, press enter, puncutation marks
 
 
 
 
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Password Minder 1.5.0.10 Released

2008-04-12 21:49:00 by keith-brown in Security Briefs
 
...password dialog to be more reasonable: it now by default specifies a 12-char password, not the 20 it used to - most websites can't handle a password that long. I also removed the lower case 'l' and punctuation, with a button that allows you to add back in the puncutation marks if you want One last minor thing - I added AcceptsReturn=true to...
 
Tags: password, 12-char password, password dialog, master key safe, tools page, main form, readme file, press enter, puncutation marks
 
 
 
 
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Password Minder 1.5.0.10 Released

2008-04-12 21:49:00 by keith-brown in Security Briefs
 
...password dialog to be more reasonable: it now by default specifies a 12-char password, not the 20 it used to - most websites can't handle a password that long. I also removed the lower case 'l' and punctuation, with a button that allows you to add back in the puncutation marks if you want One last minor thing - I added AcceptsReturn=true to...
 
Tags: password, 12-char password, password dialog, master key safe, tools page, main form, readme file, press enter, puncutation marks
 
 
 
 
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Password Minder 1.5.0.10 Released

2008-04-12 22:49:00 by keith-brown in Security Briefs
 
...password dialog to be more reasonable: it now by default specifies a 12-char password, not the 20 it used to - most websites can't handle a password that long. I also removed the lower case 'l' and punctuation, with a button that allows you to add back in the puncutation marks if you want One last minor thing - I added AcceptsReturn=true to...
 
Tags: password, 12-char password, master key safe, password dialog, readme file, press enter, tools page, main form, puncutation marks
 
 
 
 
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FaxBox: the latest in password scams

2008-01-07 18:09:34 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...password. Most people, sigh, willingly supply their passwords to any seemingly innocuous service. We all know that these services really are vile disgusting filth, the very embodiment of whatever nefarious supreme being you now strongly wish would unleash itself on FaxBox and their ilk So in this case, I'm certainly not going to click on the...
 
Tags: email, question itfanboxapps, email address, question, fanbox, junk email folder, faxbox, ratul, named ratul
 
 
 
 
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OT: Expiring Password & News

The Article has images
2008-01-25 10:36:53 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...password Hi I believe my computer password will expire on 2/5/08. How do I get a new one/ Do I just call-in Thx for your help Jane B. Doe xxx-xxx-xxxx xxx-xxx-xxxx (Fax The service desk thought I might find some humor in this, maybe you do too. If you don't see a problem with this email then you need some training, eh The Breach Blog...
 
Tags: breach blog, breach, blog, password, service desk, it-service desk, opinion quick blogcast, platform, information
 
 
 
 
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Forgot your password? may be weakest link in web security

2008-08-27 13:27:57 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Almost everyone forgets a Web site password once in a while. When you do, you click on the familiar Forgot your password? link. As an experiment, Thompson recently asked a few friends for permission to "hack" into their bank accounts. Using only information gathered from Web sites such as Facebook, he found his way in to each account within minutes
 
Tags: password, web site password, thompson recently, link, bank accounts, web sites, experiment, friends, hack
 
 
 
 
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Can I get your Username and Password ?

2008-03-24 17:25:00 by Random InfoSec Guy in Security Coin
 
...password to reset the flag Wow!" I almost yelled in excitement " A real live telephone scammer!" I quickly noted the possibly-fake telephone number (yeah - Nitesh alerted me about spoofcard.com a long time ago!) and attempted to get a number where I could call him back. Surprisingly - he was fine with letting me call him back at the number...
 
Tags: security, security flags, major benefits provider