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Worst Practices in Choosing a Password

For some people, choosing a password seems quite easy. However, it seems that the worst ones are usually the most common. Passwords like ‘1234567’, ‘qwerty’ and ‘password’ are inexplicably still most often used. This means that an average hacker needs from 5 to 10 seconds to break them, using nothing other than some logical thinking. […]

Miscellaneous

IT Acronyms are the worst and we don’t know how to use them

A survey conducted by Six Degrees Group has found that people perceive IT professionals as using more jargon than bankers, lawyers and politicians combined. Many of the people surveyed do not understand the jargon: 22% believed Platform as a Service (PaaS) was a new philosophy in railway management, and 16% thought Infrastructure as a Service […]