Thanks to the hard-working and industrious hacker community, the company where I serve my internship had a free holiday today that hopefully won’t cost us all our jobs.
How did such a nefarious denizen of the digital underground infiltrate our most vital server?
Well, in classic “the Boss” fashion, the Boss changed the system administrator password to “password.”
This post serves as a warning to everyone out there about [COLOR=red]passwords[/COLOR] . I know most of you have heard this a million times, but KEEP YOUR PASSWORDS HARD TO GUESS! All a hacker needs is an opportunity like:
Boss: Oh… the system admin is on vacation. I’ll just change his password to “password.” It will only until he comes back. No big deal.
REMEMBER: NEVER USE THE FOLLOWING PASSWORDS
-password
-admin
-user name (which is the user name associated with the pass)
-"" (null string, just press return. You think this is clever, but trust me, you’re not the only one who’s come up with this)
Other passwords to stay away from includes personal information a hacker can easily find out about. For example, if your name is Drew Yates and your birthday is 7/23/1984, then don’t make your password yates72384
NOTE:: that’s not my password, but I know someone will try anyways! :chinaman: So in advanced: it wont work!
:::::::THIS HAS BEEN A COMMUNITY SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT::::::
:::::WE NOW RETURN TO YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAM::::
PS:: If you’re AFRAID to answer because somebody may crack your password, that is fair warning to you that your password is NO GOOD and should be CHANGED.
My password is just a random combination of letters and numbers. The problem is, no matter how sophisticated your password, anybody who is interested in finding it will get at it. Maybe the regular users or casual hackers can get by, but the hackers who are serious can get pretty much anything from you
I have different passwords for everything and they are all random. One for logon, one for email, one for aim, one for kirupa, on for geocities, etc. How i remember, them I don’t know.
huh, I guess the movie “Hackers” is wrong, people just don’t use the password: “GOD” like they used to. I guess hackers also stopped flying around in digital landscapes when they surfed the Internet, too… oh well.
I use a word from another language. Like ‘puppetmastery’ in Swahili or something That’s not what I use, it’s just an example. Before, I used funny names of African villages