your password: how bad guys will steal your identity
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Your password: How bad guys will steal your identity. Dan Q Communications Department, Bodleian Libraries. Your password is weak. You are a target. Attacks are on the rise. You can protect yourself. You are a target. You are a target. @mat. Your password is weak. Your password is weak. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
UAS Conference 2012
18 September 2012
Your password:How bad guys will steal your identityDan QCommunications Department,Bodleian Libraries
14 September 2010
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YOU ARE A TARGET
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YOUR PASSWORD IS WEAK
ATTACKS ARE ON THE RISE
YOU CAN PROTECT YOURSELF
YOU ARE A TARGET
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@mat
YOU ARE A TARGET
YOUR PASSWORD IS WEAK
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A good password is:
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YOUR PASSWORD IS WEAK
COMPLEXLONG
UNIQUERANDOM
at least 8; ideally at least 12 characters at least 2; ideally at least 3 classes
not linked to you; ideally truly random each password only used in one place
• Most Britons use only 5 different passwords• 24% use a single password for most accounts
- Experian, 2012
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YOUR PASSWORD IS WEAK
ATTACKS ARE ON THE RISE
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ATTACKS ARE ON THE RISE
swordfish1
SF1ilteaSF
b1wITs&eloyp%
YOU CAN PROTECT YOURSELF
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Tools that can help:
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YOU CAN PROTECT YOURSELF
QUESTIONS
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More about me, annotated copy of this presentation, etc., can be found it:
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~bodl2255/
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