December 19, 2006

IP pimping

Network hackers will understand:

While configuring some multicast today, I repeatedly typed "ip pimp" while configuring PIM settings. Is this some $Deity intervening between my brain and my fingers to tell me my destiny?

Posted by blaine at 12:18 (-06:00) | Comments (3)

December 15, 2006

password1

34,000 MySpace account credentials phished. The attack was simple, but clever enough to trick quite a few people. It was not your traditional "Your account may have been compromised and we need you to change your password immediately. Please go to the address below that looks somewhat like the real web site but isn't" email phishing attempt.

The most common password? "password1". We've advanced quite a bit from when "password" was number one. The #3 password phished was "myspace1", so next time you feel like hacking the account of your mortal MySpace enemy (ha!) to leave naughty pictures on it, give that one a try.

Perhaps the data aren't all that representative of the rest of the world. A user who falls for a phishing attack probably isn't that security-conscious to begin with.

Two separate analyses of the data: Bruce Schneier's (crypto and security expert) and Roger A. Grimes' of InfoWorld. Grimes has some amusing tidbits:

*Cuss words were very popular. Boy, there’s a lot of aggression out there.

*I was surprised about how many Christian-sounding -- for example, "Ilovejesus" -- log-on names were associated with the worst cuss words.

Posted by blaine at 11:39 (-06:00) | Comments (1)