Perhaps you might want to rethink your threat model: http://www.darkreading.com/database-security/167901020/security/attacks-breaches/232601717/new- verizon-breach-data-shows-outside-threat-dominated-2011.html
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 13:50, Doug Hampshire <dhampsh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are you sure about that? The vast majority of security incidents happen on > the inside of your network from known individuals. Also it was addressing > offline brute force attacks. Most online systems have lockout policies and > other countermeasures to limit exposure to brute force attacks. > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Crawford, Scott <crawfo...@evangel.edu>wrote: > >> I'd rather have "good" passwords written down on a sticky note >> accessible only to a limited number of coworkers than "bad" passwords that >> can be exploited by any black-hat on the internet. >> >> Sent from my Windows Phone >> ------------------------------ >> From: Heaton, Joseph@DFG >> Sent: 3/15/2012 11:07 AM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: RE: Worth some consideration... >> >> >> Wait… I’m NOT supposed to write my password on a sticky note? How am I >> supposed to let my coworker use my login, then? >> >> >> >> Joe Heaton >> >> ITB – Windows Server Support >> >> >> >> *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] >> *Sent:* Thursday, March 15, 2012 7:49 AM >> *To:* Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* Re: Worth some consideration... >> >> >> >> That's an implementation problem. >> >> >> >> If I choose a passphrase of "Mary had a little lamb" then of course that >> will be relatively weak as passphrases go. That that is not an inherent >> weakness of passphrases, but of people. >> >> >> >> Lots of things are undermined by poor choices. Completely random 20 >> character passwords with a unicode character set are undermined by having >> them posted on sticky notes. >> >> >> >> We didn't need a whole article to point that out. >> >> >> >> *ASB* >> >> *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* >> >> *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market…* >> >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/03/passphrases-only-marginally-more-secure-than-passwords-because-of-poor-choices.ars >> >> By Dan Goodin >> Ars Technica >> March 14, 2012 >> >> Passwords that contain multiple words aren't as resistant as some >> researchers expected to certain types of cracking attacks, mainly >> because users frequently pick phrases that occur regularly in everyday >> speech, a recently published paper concludes. >> >> Security managers have long regarded passphrases as an >> easy-to-remember way to pack dozens of characters into the string that >> must be entered to access online accounts or to unlock private >> encryption keys. The more characters, the thinking goes, the harder it >> is for attackers to guess or otherwise crack the code, since there are >> orders of magnitude more possible combinations. >> >> But a pair of computer scientists from Cambridge University has found >> that a significant percentage of passphrases used in a real-world >> scenario were easy to guess. Using a dictionary containing 20,656 >> phrases of movie titles, sports team names, and other proper nouns, >> they were able to find about 8,000 passphrases chosen by users of >> Amazon's now-defunct PayPhrase system. That's an estimated 1.13 >> percent of the available accounts. The promise of passphrases' >> increased entropy, it seems, was undone by many users' tendency to >> pick phrases that are staples of the everyday lexicon. >> >> "Our results suggest that users aren't able to choose phrases made of >> completely random words, but are influenced by the probability of a >> phrase occurring in natural language," researchers Joseph Bonneau and >> Ekaterina Shutova wrote in the paper (PDF), which is titled >> "Linguistic properties of multi-word passphrases." 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