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No, eight characters, some capital letters and numbers is not a good password policy

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Behind the freshly painted white picket fence, plenty of corporate networks are probably not as far away from this near failure of account security as they’d like to imagine.

I can assure you that this is true.

The boneheadedness of people in the upper reaches of the food chain who delight in "not understanding IT" is 80% of the problem. The opionion that "nobody would attack us" is 20% of the rest.

> You are on an Internet server that seems not have to been updated in a long time.

> You might find a surprise in your webserver file hierarchy.

> You can go [N]orth or [E]ast.

> [N]

> You find a rootkit hidden in C:\Tmp

> [Look]

> The rootkit seems to have sent a lot of data to an Ukrainian IP address.

> [Inventory]

> You have 2 dollar to buy a new USB stick. Otherwise the budget for the year has been exhausted.

> [Leave]

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