Why you shouldn’t be using passwords of any kind on your Windows networks . . .
Posted on December 16, 2004
Why you shouldn’t be using passwords of any kind on your Windows networks . . .:
So this is my first ever blog entry and seeing as how I’m a senior member of the PSS Security Incident Response team, you may think I’ve stopped taking my medication by opening with a title like the one above! Medication issues notwithstanding, it’s true – you should NOT be using passwords of any kind. Why? For starters, passwords are ridiculously easy to guess or crack. Worms like Agobot / Phatbot / Polybot / SDBot / RBot (no I didn’t write this one) all ship with dictionaries of passwords numbering in the hundreds and they can easily replicate to a system that has a password in this word list, and the miscreants are really good at keeping these wordlists up to date with passwords that they’ve cracked from other systems.
via bob congdon.
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