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Thousands of employees in the US Department of the Interior are using accounts that are easily hacked (www.businessinsider.com)
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Thousands of employees in the US Department of the Interior are using accounts that are easily hacked::The Interior Department is tasked with protecting the country's natural resources, like gas pipelines. Hundreds of its senior officers even used "password-1234" on their accounts.

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[–] totallynotfbi@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Greenblatt also noted that 99.99% of the 18,000 accounts that staff cracked met the Department's password complexity requirements — including "Password-1234."

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...

[–] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Password-1234 is over 8 characters, has an uppercase character, a lowercase character, a number, and a special character.

Looks fine to me.