[–] 4 points 2 days ago

Thanks, it’s probably a combination of the above or even all of them

And like another user shared, they may just be idiots

I just wanted to confirm, there must be plain text databases, they got access to, maybe from some of the less secure systems, on the shop floor or wherever that may have unsecured protocols (they’re inside the corporate network, not directly connected to the internet)

But I’m going with idiots

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  • [–] 17 points 2 days ago* (12 children)

    Can I take the opportunity to ask a question?

    I work at multinational EU company, we run windows/office for the enduser. There are many parallel systems, some running linux or whatever but that’s besides the point

    But there was this audit, performed by an external company, at request of the holding (mother company) that revealed unsafe passwords that contained company name in it. According to the auditors that’s a big no no

    My question is: how tf do they even find out that the passwords have some specific string in it? Is it not being salted? That would surprise as our IT/network management team is very capable, and relies on windows tools that should be safe to begin

    Just how?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I saw a hack, years ago, probably on reddit since I was there at the time (so, long ago) that was like thinking “since I’m awake, let me just get up and do some chores”, like washing yesterday’s dishes you left in the sink to soak. Apparently at the prospect, you then sleep like a baby It’s a similar brain glitch to like once the alarm goes off and you hit snooze, I fall asleep in seconds. Stupid brains…

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