The Security box, podcast 177: passwords, Oh My! The Perils of Employee Password Misuse

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Welcome to podcast 177 of the Security Box. On this podcast, we seem to be on a password discussion, as lots of articles have come out in regards to the subject. Our topic even will include talking about passwords. We'll also have things to ponder, possibly some morons, and a great time as always!

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Our moron(s)

Mercedes, its your turn. Apparently, you had something open on your Github account. The thing is, you're not the first car company to have issues, although you never said that there wasn't a problem, you did fix it with Github assisting as well. A password is mistakenly published, source code, blueprints and more once at risk is the blog post where you can read more about this one. Good job, guys!

Microsoft, you aught to be ashamed of yourself. You decided to give a test account admin privelages, then let the account go to legacy status. Then, because its an administrative account, someone finds it and abuses your systems. Great job! Ars Technica has the complete details. In major gaffe, hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges is the article.

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Password reuse

We haven't blogged this at the time of these notes, but this is a good topic. The Perils of Employee Password Reuse comes to us from Lastpass and Amber Steel. Let us know what you think.

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