Xato : Passwords

Multi-Factor Authentication vs Multi-Single Factor Authentication

MB's Windows Security — Wed, 09 May 2007 15:35:43 GMT

Sprites mods has an interesting article about hacking the protection of a hardware authentication device: http://www.spritesmods.com/?art=secustick What’s interesting about this is that it shows how easy it is to feel like a hardware device is providing...(read more)

Online Password Checker - How Common is Your Password?

MB's Windows Security — Wed, 09 May 2007 14:01:48 GMT

Here’s a password strength tester, and probably one of the most effective I have seen. Just enter your password in the text box and click on the search button. If you get no results, chances are your password is pretty good. I think many of you...(read more)

How to Guess an Admin’s Password Without Them Knowing You Are Trying

MB's Windows Security — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:30:38 GMT

Explains an old trick on how to guess someone else's password without anything getting logged in the domain controller's event logs Read More......(read more)

Why my password’s better than Y0ur P@$$word

MBs Windows Security — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:00:32 GMT

http://www.nurs.co.uk/news/specials/cms/1171535504212694732419_1.htm Read More......(read more)

New Passwords Feed

MBs Windows Security — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:17:54 GMT

I was playing around with the cool new Yahoo! Pipes site and built myself a feed on password topics. I’m sure I will be tweaking it some as I learn how to use pipes, but I thought I’d pass my pipe around to others who are interested in passwords...(read more)

Pafwert: Smarter Passwords

MBs Windows Security — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:30:35 GMT

Pafwert is an unique free tool to help you to select strong passwords that are easy to remember. Read More......(read more)

Dilbert’s Password Recover Service for Morons

MBs Windows Security — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:32:26 GMT

See it here. Read More......(read more)

Long passwords are strong passwords

MBs Windows Security — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:01:17 GMT

I noticed that Schneier wrote a bit on choosing passwords and gets into some detail on how to secure a password based on some of the techniques used to crack passwords. His specific advice is: “…if you want your password to be hard to guess...(read more)

Passwords: First Letters

MBs Windows Security — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:00:30 GMT

I recently did an analysis of my password list to see which letters users most commonly used as the first password character. To put it into perspective, I also ran the same statistics on a wordlist of 250,000 English words. The results were not quite...(read more)

Password Trivia: Uppercase Letters

MBs Windows Security — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 02:49:02 GMT

In my last post I mentioned that few passwords contain uppercase letters. I also did some further study to see exactly how people use uppercase letters in passwords. Read More......(read more)

Password Trivia: Character Sets

MBs Windows Security — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:26:08 GMT

I thought I would start sharing some of the statistics I have gathered over the last five years researching passwords. One area I found interesting was the use of character sets. I have long said that password length is the single most important factor...(read more)

Perfect Passwords Book!

MBs Windows Security — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:07:23 GMT

I finally finished my Perfect Passwords book. In this book I attack much of the conventional wisdom about password policies and present new techniques for building strong passwords. For example, I think that passwords as a technology aren’t obsolete...(read more)