Posted By: _erica_
p@s$wOrD123! - 07/12/13 07:08 PM
I got hacked by my own IT department. Followed by a lecture email about proper password picking practies.
o_O
Posted By: _erica_
Re: p@s$wOrD123! - 07/12/13 07:45 PM
Franzia2nite?
Vella4me?
well now that i need to change it.....
We have six different systems that require passwords all with different length and parameter requirements and all must be reset at different times. I guess it slows down hackers, but I can guarantee you I can find written passwords in about 90% of the offices becuase no one can rmemeber all the d*mn things.
Posted By: HappyGilmore
Re: p@s$wOrD123! - 07/12/13 08:39 PM
I got hacked by my own IT department. Followed by a lecture email about proper password picking practies.
o_O
i would kindly reply to them that if the system allowed you to set it as a password that it clearly is within the company password parameters and to have a nice day...
Posted By: BotV#6
Re: p@s$wOrD123! - 07/12/13 08:46 PM
This may be me, but any password can be hacked given enough time and effort. Sounds like they have a deficient intrusion detection software.
The best part is that they are likely monitoring this thread now. Erica, tell us how you really feel about them?
Dorks!
Posted By: MyBrainHurts
Re: p@s$wOrD123! - 07/12/13 09:31 PM
Our IT manager has her network password in the top drawer on the left hand side of her desk, in a little book.
Posted By: WonderWoman
Re: p@s$wOrD123! - 07/12/13 09:38 PM
How to create an easy to remember, hard to guess password:
Everyone has a favorite song or poem. For instance, let's say that your favorite song is Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven". The first line of that song is "There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold." Take the first letter of each word, and you get "Talwsatgig". That's a good start for a password! It's ten characters long, and it's easy to remember, as long as you know the first line of the song. However, it only uses small and capital letters, so let's add more.
When you were a kid, you may have played around with a simple code, in which a=1 and b=2, all the way to z=26. Here's another one that a lot of people sometimes used: a=@, b=6, e=3, i=1 (or !), l=1 (or l=!), o=0, s=5 (or s=$), t=+, and so on. Basically, you match the letters to a number or symbol that they sort of resemble. You can do this however you'd like, using whatever makes the most sense to you. If we do that, and then apply these substitutions to the password we've been developing, we get this: "T@1w5atg1g". Now that is a great password!
Posted By: Matt_B
Re: p@s$wOrD123! - 07/12/13 09:45 PM
I just hacked your Amazon account and ordered 80 cases of single-ply TP on your behalf
But the shipping was free!
Posted By: GuitarDude
Re: p@s$wOrD123! - 07/12/13 10:50 PM
That's a good strategy, WW. But what if your favorite song is YYZ?
Posted By: manimal
Re: p@s$wOrD123! - 07/15/13 01:54 PM
I wonder if anyone has used REM's "It's the End of the World as We Know It" lyrics.........
I once worked with someone whose password was "I quit".
I used to have a butcher as a customer - they kept having online trouble due to not understanding the whole idea of using a capital, lowercase, number, AND special character. I reset their password to 100%Kosher and they had no more troubles...
Posted By: Matt_B
Re: p@s$wOrD123! - 07/15/13 03:59 PM
IT and management are liking LastPass, which I'm sure people will end up writing down their "master login" info on a post-it anyway, and then I can suddenly access everything just by stealing one piece of info...but hey, that's their problem I guess!
Posted By: manimal
Re: p@s$wOrD123! - 07/15/13 04:09 PM
Some folks here have a 'master spreadsheet' with all their logins. They password protect that spreadsheet and then use it to track/retrieve all their other passwords.
Posted By: thomasj
Re: p@s$wOrD123! - 07/15/13 04:14 PM
Last pass rocks, but you have to use a very secure master password. It has become impossible to remember the 20+ passwords I need since they all have different parameters.
Posted By: E.E.G.B
Re: p@s$wOrD123! - 07/15/13 04:26 PM
There are several password vault applications.
Posted By: Matt_B
Re: p@s$wOrD123! - 07/15/13 04:29 PM
Some folks here have a 'master spreadsheet' with all their logins. They password protect that spreadsheet and then use it to track/retrieve all their other passwords.
But then they forget their initial computer login info, or the password for the spreadsheet and they're screwed all over again!
Posted By: La. Lady
Re: p@s$wOrD123! - 07/15/13 04:43 PM
@Matt_B....what is wrong with that cat? LOL
I once worked at a bank where all the tellers shared the same password for one of the systems. Once I found out about it, I reset it so each teller had their own individual secure password. They really hated me at that bank.
Posted By: califgirl
Re: p@s$wOrD123! - 07/15/13 04:53 PM
omg
I just counted my passwords - I have 59 that are work-related.
We use Password Safe.
Posted By: Matt_B
Re: p@s$wOrD123! - 07/15/13 05:06 PM
@Matt_B....what is wrong with that cat? LOL
He got an email that he has a new match on eHarmony and can't remember his password to access it.
Brother was a computer expert who took all his passwords to his grave. Cost his widow big bucks to get a hacker to break into the computer that had all the info the family needed to survive.
IT here mandated that everyone use KeePass.
It's free.
For your master, you can use one password you'll never forget or need to write down.
Just have to remember to update KeePass when the timed mandatory password changes pop up.
Liked the program so much, we use it at home.
Posted By: _erica_
Re: p@s$wOrD123! - 07/15/13 07:36 PM
@Matt_B....what is wrong with that cat? LOL
He got an email that he has a new match on eHarmony and can't remember his password to access it.
HAHAHAHAHA
I would be lying if I said I didn't sit here and watch that cat for a good 3 mins.
Posted By: basilring
Re: p@s$wOrD123! - 07/16/13 02:06 PM
I have an app on my phone called Keeper. It was recommended to me and it works great. I have separate folders for work and personal stuff. (Just don' forget the password to the app!)
Posted By: basilring
Re: p@s$wOrD123! - 07/16/13 02:08 PM
Keeper is free, but you can pay $10/yr for a system backup, which of course I did!
Posted By: JustMe!
Re: p@s$wOrD123! - 07/16/13 03:09 PM
The Keeper app is a lifesaver for me! It is worth the $10/year to have it backed up.
Posted By: Wolfy
Re: p@s$wOrD123! - 07/17/13 03:48 PM
Wow I would have never thought to give other people my passwords to store out on the web to keep them safe from people out on the web.
This is why I am working IT at a bank and not sailing on a yacht off the coast while people send me 10 bucks a pop to store info they can't remember ^_^
Posted By: edAudit
Re: p@s$wOrD123! - 07/17/13 04:11 PM
Wow I would have never thought to give other people my passwords to store out on the web to keep them safe from people out on the web.
This is why I am working IT at a bank and not sailing on a yacht off the coast while people send me 10 bucks a pop to store info they can't remember ^_^
if these people can not remember their password, how are they to remember the site name if something goes wrong with the favorites settings?
Posted By: 'Lil Freak!
Re: p@s$wOrD123! - 07/17/13 05:57 PM
Some folks here have a 'master spreadsheet' with all their logins. They password protect that spreadsheet and then use it to track/retrieve all their other passwords.
I did this...and then we upgraded to Windows 7. Poof...lots of my personal stuff disappeared
Posted By: manimal
Re: p@s$wOrD123! - 07/17/13 06:52 PM
That would be a rough day in the office... all passwords lost...
Posted By: _erica_
Re: p@s$wOrD123! - 07/17/13 09:24 PM
That would be a rough day in the office... all passwords lost...
Our helpdesk techs would be throwing themselves out of their office windows within an hour.