Article: Intelligent Password Use - Defeating Trojans
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Intelligent Password Use - Defeating Trojans
I write this because I had read about Microsoft's Jesper Johansson post about letting employees write their passwords down to avoid them using simple easy-to-guess passwords. I think he has a great point, but there is an even better method of having passwords that can even defeat Trojans! Here's how:
Let's assume you have this password: 9nh$tt-12 Ok that's a tough password, it uses letters and numbers and odd characters, very few people have this kind of password. So, remembering it might be difficult right? Well if all you do is follow Jesper's advice and write it down on a piece of paper, and then just type it in when the password prompt asks you, Trojans have you by the short and curlies. Why? Well, first of all, the word you typed before the password was your username. S...
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