There were roughly 30 Street teams that participated in Korelogic’s 2020 Crack Me If You Can password cracking contest at Defcon. I took 4th place.

There’s an old quip about solutions causing more problems: Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.

Understanding basic password types will help you devise a strong password management strategy for all of your accounts. In general, and at a high-level, there are two basic types of passwords.

I once worked in highly regulated environments and needed a way to recall dozens of complex passwords that changed frequently. I tried to use a password manager, but could not due to the burdens and insecurity of some common design flaws.

Some years ago, I worked for an organization that was involved in federally funded research. Occasionally, government IT auditors (or contractors that they hired) would visit our facilities to audit our systems.