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After a cybersecurity audit mistakenly reset everyone’s password, a high school changed every student’s password to “Ch@ngeme!” giving every student the chance to hack into any other student’s account, according to emails obtained by TechCrunch.
I'm sure it seemed like a good idea at the time 😉
Was hoping for some hilarious outcomes but no. Nothing.
Was hoping for some hilarious outcomes but no. Nothing.
the youth of today obviously lack imagination!
Reminds me of the (possibly apocryphal) story of a university resetting everyone's email passwords, then emailing out the new passwords...
TBF, when I worked at a large bank about 20 years back, you could pretty much guarantee you could log onto most of their Windows servers at the time with the credentials administrator / w2kserver 😀
20+ years of working in IT I've seen some absolute horrors and I'm not even in Security!
Has anyone checked in on @cougar as I suspect he's gibbering at the security lapse?
TBF, when I worked at a large bank about 20 years back, you could pretty much guarantee you could log onto most of their Windows servers at the time with the credentials administrator / w2kserver 😀
20+ years of working in IT I’ve seen some absolute horrors and I’m not even in Security!
Yup, had an emergency issue a few years back and no one knew the login for a SQL server for a major client... some collegue suggested Admin - Pa55word!
It worked. :/
Not IT, but I worked in a place that had a keypad lock into a secure file storage room. It was installed in 2013 so that was what they set the code to….as that type of lock doesn’t need the numbers to be entered in order, 0123 would open it…..
At my girls' school, the default password for every child (which they are not prompted to change on first log-in, although over time kids find out and do so) is so obviously easy to decode by other students and has caused endless grief.
It is something like this:
Email: [firstname-surname]@school.net
Password: [firstname-surname]2020*[name-of-house]
*The 2020 being the year they started at school. So anyone can get into anyone else's account if they know their name, the year they started and the house they are in. To my knowledge this has still not been changed.
Reminds me of the (possibly apocryphal) story of a university resetting everyone’s email passwords, then emailing out the new passwords…
Manchester Uni was recently hacked and the IT team has decided everyone needs to change their passwords. So they send an email out simultaneously to the 1000's of folks who work there with this information, followed by another 2 minutes later telling everyone to stop because the system can't cope with everyone trying to change their passwords all at once.
a high school changed every student’s password to “Ch@ngeme!” giving every student the chance to hack into any other student’s account,
That's not hacking, it's just typing.
Thought this thread would be about that chapter in the novel.
Yup, had an emergency issue a few years back and no one knew the login for a SQL server for a major client… some collegue suggested Admin – Pa55word!
Most of the PCs where I worked were that, with a zero ofc. I evolved mine to pa55edw1ndyr1dge