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The business world has a password problem—starting with the fact that the No. 1 computer password employed by business users is, wait for it: "Password1". Unfortunately, that's just the most cringe-worthy example of bad enterprise security cited by Trustwave in its recently released Global Security Report for 2012.
Why "Password1"? Because "it satisfies the default Microsoft Active Directory complexity setting," the IT security research firm noted. In other words, it's got a capitalized letter, a number, and the requisite number of characters to qualify under basic password security settings.
thenewgreen · 4432 days ago · link ·
That's the default password I was given when I started. I was forced to change it after 30 days but had I not been, it would likely still be the pw.
I was recently locked out of my outlook email because I didn't listen to my IT dept's calls to update my password. Maybe I'll do it again.
I don't write down any of my passwords, except for those that require me to change it again and again. That's a really dumb policy. What would be the benefit of changing your password, btw? It's not as if hackers were so close to cracking it and you changed it before they could.