This dumb password rule is from Tanishq.

Password must contain:
- 6 to 16 characters.
- At least one special character (@, #, $, %, * and & only).
- At least one alphabet.
- At least one number.

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/tanishq/

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

#AndroidAuthority:
"
Maybe the FCC was onto something: These routers are phoning home to China with a secret backdoor
Of course, because they predate the ban, the FCC continues to permit their sale
"
"The FCC is only targeting new routers, while all these super-insecure old Zbtlink models can continue to be sold."

https://www.androidauthority.com/routers-china-backdoor-3695345/

8.8.2026

#Amazon #Backdoor #China #Cybersicherheit #Cybersecurity #FCC #IT #Roouter #USA #VulnCheck #Wiflyer #Zbtlink

This dumb password rule is from SONY.

- between 8 and 30 characters
- at least one number or special character
- not part of email address
- avoid common passwords
- repeating characters 3 or more times should be avoided
- currency characters and 3 or more consecutive characters, also in reverse order, should be avoided
Somehow "$" i...

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/sony/

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

Yikes... smartwatch from Amazon for kids which is basically a peppeing/stalking device. 😱

https://infosec.exchange/@agreenberg/117050764664483660

#smartwatch #cybersecurity #hacking

This dumb password rule is from IBM.

12-63 characters
One uppercase character
One lowercase character
One number
Sufficiently Strong
Special characters are optional.
Double byte characters are not allowed

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/ibm/

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

This dumb password rule is from Fidelity National Information Services.

White label online banking provider. Typically appears as `BANK.ibanking-services.com` or `BANK.ebanking-services.com`. If your small local bank has a crappy online banking experience, these guys probably provide it.

`\<>'` and spaces prohibited, upper bound. Passwords of exactly the maximum len...

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/fidelity-national-information-services/

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A preview of where autonomous hacking may be heading:

During a UK cyber test, a Mythos 5 agent used sockpuppets, spearphishing emails, and prompt injection to try to get an open source maintainer to merge malware.

https://socket.dev/blog/ai-agent-open-source-malware #OpenSource #Cybersecurity

This dumb password rule is from ADP.

Forced to change the password during the first login. At least they
could use proper grammar in their rule list.

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/adp/

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

New IT Guy Show is live, and this one is about a tool a lot of us LOVE: @bitwarden .

Password managers are one of those things everyone agrees you should use and nobody really wants to talk about. We got into why Bitwarden being open source actually matters, new features, and how it holds up when you take it into a team or an org instead of just your personal logins.

Watch here: https://youtu.be/mtJVzPL9-fQ
#Bitwarden #OpenSource #Cybersecurity #PasswordManager #Linux #ITGuyShow

This dumb password rule is from Apple.

Can't contain 3 or more consecutive identical characters, nor can it be more than 63 characters long.

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/apple/

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

@lwn

Jia Tan as a service.

#cybersecurity #infosec #security #xz

This dumb password rule is from Moose Mobile.

Moose mobile is an Australian mobile service provider that imposes poor password requirements.
"The password must be of minimum 4 and maximum 15 characters. The Confirm Password field may only contain alpha-numeric characters."

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/moose-mobile/

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

This dumb password rule is from IBM.

12-63 characters
One uppercase character
One lowercase character
One number
Sufficiently Strong
Special characters are optional.
Double byte characters are not allowed

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/ibm/

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

This dumb password rule is from La Banque Postale.

Password must be 6 digits and entered on custom pad.

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/la-banque-postale/

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

This dumb password rule is from WellStar MyChart.

Your password must be between 8 and 20 characters.

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/wellstar-mychart/

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

The AUR situation:

"We have now disabled pushes altogether as well for the moment, while we
handle the situation. Sorry for the inconvenience."

https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/message/YPJ3FQYJTJXXY3RUXCYLMHUKHLIUNVFF/

#aur #arch #archlinux #cybersecurity #ai

This dumb password rule is from Saturn.

Passwords need to be between 8 and 15 characters.

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/saturn/

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

This dumb password rule is from Minnesota Unemployment Insurance.

Locked to *exactly* 6 chars, alphanumeric only, not special chars.

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/minnesota-unemployment-insurance/

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

This dumb password rule is from Moose Mobile.

Moose mobile is an Australian mobile service provider that imposes poor password requirements.
"The password must be of minimum 4 and maximum 15 characters. The Confirm Password field may only contain alpha-numeric characters."

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/moose-mobile/

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

This dumb password rule is from Ticketmaster.de.

Your password length is limited between 8 and 32 characters.

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/ticketmaster-de/

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

This dumb password rule is from GoDaddy.

Some characters are **too** special.

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/godaddy/

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

Last night I "discovered" a vulnerability in a very widely used open-source tool. The tool is nearly 40 years old, and the vulnerability is at least 28 years old.

Interestingly, Apple has a fix included that dates it back to 2008, but it appears for whatever reason the fix never made it to upstream.

Result? Everyone else is vulnerable today. I am not pointing fingers here, but clearly something went wrong.

I've now reported the issue upstream, which will hopefully eventually lead to a fix being distributed to every affected platform.

I am not going to disclose the details of the vulnerability right now, even though the fix has been public for a very, very long time now. As far as I can tell, most Linux and BSD systems are vulnerable right now, so letting coordinated disclosure happen only makes sense.

#infosec #cybersecurity #vulnerabilityresearch

This dumb password rule is from Hetzner.

- 8 or more characters
- At least one uppercase and one lowercase letter
- At least one number or special character

Okay, fair enough, but after putting in a password with some special characters this message appears:
- Invalid characters, allowed are: A-Z a-z 0-9 ä ö ü ß Ä Ö Ü ^ ! $ % / ( ) = ?...

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/hetzner/

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

This dumb password rule is from Crunchyroll.

At least 6 characters.
No spaces allowed.

There is no password complexity required (no special characters, numbers, uppercase or lowercase letters required).
You could make the password 123456. It also lets you change your password to your previously used password.

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/crunchyroll/

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

What beauty of #visualizaion of the #huggingface incident -
Perfect for #CyberSecurity-Awareness #MGMT communication => Details here: https://huggingface-anatomy-of-frontier-lab-model-intrusion.static.hf.space/index.html

This dumb password rule is from PCPartPicker.

There are no rules for passwords. Passwords can be any length (including one character)
of any complexity. No password change confirmation emails are sent.

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/pcpartpicker/

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

This dumb password rule is from CenturyLink.

So many bad ideas: a low maximum length, requiring six specific character types while not accepting common symbols,
plus a weird restriction that makes random generation harder.

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/centurylink/

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

This dumb password rule is from Targobank.

Your password must:
- must not be your username
- must at least eight characters
- must contain at least one number character
- must contain at least one uppercase character and 1 lowercase character
- must not contain spaces
- must not contain three identical characters in a row
- must not conta...

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/targobank/

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

This dumb password rule is from Credit Union Australia (CUA) Health.

Password must be between 7 and 10 characters, contain both an uppercase and a lowercase letter and have at least one number.

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/credit-union-australia-cua-health/

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

This dumb password rule is from Really Useful Storage Boxes.

- Have a length between 8 and 20 alphanumeric characters (without accents)
- Contain at least 1 CAPITAL letter
- Contain at least 1 lowercase letter
- Contain at least 1 numeric character
- Contain at least 1 special character taken from the following list: *$@&()[]{}=#.-!?+/£€%

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/really-useful-storage-boxes/

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

This dumb password rule is from Combank Digital.

Only a staggering 8-12 characters allowed with prescribed selection of special characters.

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/combank-digital/

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

This dumb password rule is from Twilio.

Restriction in inclusion of characters such as 'Twilio' in password. Password must be 16 or more characters & Can't include 3 or more consecutive repeated characters.

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/twilio/

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

"Cheaper, intelligent Chinese AI models make inroads in the US" — and elsewhere around the world.
https://apnews.com/article/china-ai-model-us-kimi-deepseek-a00bf637866fcd4d81f4fde28c9862ce
#AI #China #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #cybersecurity

This dumb password rule is from University of Western Australia (Pheme).

Passwords:
1. Must contain at least 8 characters;
2. Must contain at least 3 out of 4 types of characters
(uppercase letters, lowercase letters, digits, special characters);
and
3. Must not contain
"the user's account name or parts of the user's full name
that exceed two consecutive characters".
...

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/university-of-western-australia-pheme/

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

🔐 Journalist Richard Medhurst had his mobile phone seized. Did using a secure phone protect his data? | Computer Weekly

“I was using a Pixel 7 Pro running GrapheneOS, which I installed myself and kept fully updated,” says Medhurst. “To protect my data, I compartmentalised the device into multiple isolated user profiles, effectively giving me multiple phones in one.”

https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Journalist-Richard-Medhurst-had-his-mobile-phone-seized-Did-using-a-secure-phone-protect-his-data

#grapheneos #privacy #cybersecurity

This dumb password rule is from Air France.

- Between 8 to 12 characters
- Should contain capital, lowercase letters and numbers

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/air-france/

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

This dumb password rule is from CAF (French Family Allowance Fund).

You have to enter your 8-digit password using this Frenchy keypad.

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/caf-french-family-allowance-fund/

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules