The Interior Department is tasked with protecting the country's natural resources, like gas pipelines. Hundreds of its senior officers even used "password-1234" on their accounts.

Thousands of employees in the US Department of the Interior are using accounts that are easily hacked::The Interior Department is tasked with protecting the country’s natural resources, like gas pipelines. Hundreds of its senior officers even used “password-1234” on their accounts.

  • body_by_make@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    My wife works for the govt and says the password rules also require being changed every 90 days for her, which has been proven to cause weak passwords and/or people writing them down because they can’t remember their current one.

    The govt uses pretty antiquated password security guidelines, this article is no surprise.

    • Ilikepornaddict@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      This is the most likely cause. My work has this too, but it’s every 30 days, and you can’t use the same password as any of your last 21 passwords. Which means I need 21 unique passwords. So it’s Password1, Pasword2, etc until Password 21, when I then loop back around. Great job security team!