21% of Department of the Interior Passwords Were Easily Cracked, Security Audit Finds

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21% of Department of the Interior Passwords Were Easily Cracked, Security Audit Finds
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The report also stated that the department did not enable multi-factor authentication on 89% of its high-value assets.

The report was published by the Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of the Interior, and itthe multitude of security flaws surrounding the DOI’s password management. Overall, the security auditors were able to crack

“We also learned that the Department’s password complexity requirements implicitly allowed unrelated staff to use the same inherently weak passwords and that the Department did not timely disable inactive accounts or enforce password age limits,” wrote Kathleen Sedney, the Assistant Inspector General for Audits, Inspections, and Evaluations, in the report.

assets, which are “assets that could have serious impacts to the Department’s ability to conduct business if compromised,” per the report. Multi-factor authentication is defined by the Office of the Inspector General as a known metric, like a PIN, a physical object, like an access card, or a biometric, like a fingerprint or retinal pattern.All you need to do is sign up with your email and boom: credit for your preorder on a new Samsung device.

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