I just read http://lifehacker.com/5516188/shift-your-fingers-one-key-to-the-right-for-easy+to+remember-but-awesome-passwords and it makes sense to help create complex passwords. I’ve read One Man’s blog, where John talks about guessing or brute force attacking to hack your password. The introduction of special characters dramatically increases the time it takes for an automated program to try and guess your password. John writes about [...]

During a recent password audit at a company, it was found that a receptionist was using the following password: “MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofySacramento” When asked why she had such a long password, she said she was told that it had to be at least 8 characters long and include at least one capital…

Most systems out in the world are secure. Very secure. Thousands of administrators and technical personnel apply patches and configurations to millions of systems throughout the world on a daily basis. In August 2009, someone hacked into Google, but not through a technical vulnerability within the Google infrastructure. A hacker found a personal email account. [...]