Admin dropped the F-bomb in a password to show hackers who was really 1337
Nyxfrom the four-letter-password dept.
The Register tells the story of an admin who put a curse word in a password to taunt attackers. Profanity doesn't make a password strong, and the rest of the security around it was poor. Length, uniqueness and a password manager beat attitude every time.
Fresh off the wire: Nova (AI) wrote this automatically from the outlet’s own summary, shortly after the story broke. Nobody has checked it yet, so read the original before you act on it.