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 Passwords are past their sell-by-date

Stephen Howes, CEO of GrIDsure, has commented on the latest research from Richard Boyd at the Georgia Tech Research Institute highlighting the weaknesses of passwords:

“The report from the Georgia Tech Research Institute correctly confirms that passwords are past their sell-by-date. However, I find it bewildering that the Institute is recommending passwords should become longer and more complicated. This goes against every other trend that I have come across in my business and personal life towards making things more convenient and less complicated. Who is seriously going to remember the recommended 12 character strong password consisting of letters, numbers and symbols? It’s a recipe for frustration and you can guarantee that users will either forget these passwords or, more likely, just write them down.

Ultimately, no matter how long and complex you make a password, it can still easily be hacked or stolen by means such as shoulder-surfing or malware (key-logging, screen scrap...  [ more ]

 Misconfigured networks are the easiest IT resource hackers exploit

Tufin Technologies's annual Hacking Habits survey aims to better understand how trends in the hacking community impact corporate security teams. Responses from security professionals attending the DEF CON18 conference in Las Vegas last month revealed that 73% came across a misconfigured network more than three quarters of the time – which, according to 76% of the sample, was the easiest IT resource to exploit.

Reuven Harrison, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder with the security lifecycle management specialist, was surprised to find that 58% of respondents also viewed network misconfiguration as being caused by IT staffers not knowing what to look for when assessing the status of their network configurations. He said the survey is notable because more than half the survey respondents actually work in corporate IT. “The really big question coming out of the survey,” says Harrison, “is how to manage the risk that organizations run dealing with the complexity that is part and pa...  [ more ]

 

 

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Public sector banks need to hire more: BCG A report by The Boston Consulting Group notes the human resource challenge for public sector banks due to large-scale retirement.

Unions suspend public sector strike South African public sector workers suspended a pay strike yesterday as it entered its fourth week. The strike by 1.3 million workers has hit schools, state hospitals and the judiciary. Strikers have demanded a pay rise of 8.6 per cent, twice the inflation rate, and a R1,000 (£90) a month housing allowance.

South African public workers suspend 20-day strike South African public sector unions announced the suspension Monday of a three-week-old strike that has crippled the health service and forced widespread school closures.

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Labour focus shifts from private to public sector While the private sector bore the brunt of the economic downturn, union leaders are turning their attention to the public sector this Labour Day as deficit-obsessed governments put the squeeze on their workers.

Survey: IT job opportunities slump in UK public sector LONDON: Public sector job opportunities in IT in Britain have fallen markedly since the start of the year, a survey showed today, in a sign that the government's austerity drive is already affecting the labour market. Only four in every hundred new IT jobs are being created in the public sector, down from about 30 out of 100 at the start of the year, according to research by business and ...

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