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.

  • TornadoRex
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    11 year ago

    Which also means your company is storing your old passwords which is a big security issue

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      My company’s IT department is terrible. Nothing is done right. And they’re a multi-billion dollar company.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      Not necessarily, it could mean they’re storing the old salted hashes.

      I’m pretty sure this is a setting in Windows group policy, I assume Microsoft does it correctly.