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CISO's 'clever' password mocked as weak security practice
Original: CISO thought he had a 'r3@lg00dp@$$w0rd' but forgot to patch Replacing letters with symbols still doesn’t make it good.
A chief information security officer is being ridiculed after it emerged he relied on a password that only swapped letters for symbols and numbers, spelling out 'really good password' in leetspeak, while neglecting to apply an available patch. Security commentators note that character substitution is a well-known trick that attackers' cracking tools handle easily, and that skipping patches is a more basic failure than any password choice.
Why now: The irony of a security chief using a weak password while missing a patch is being widely shared and mocked.
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