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IRS Employees Fall For Hackers

Posted by samzenpus on from the this-mail-may-come-as-a-shock-to-you dept.

linuxwrangler writes "Treasury department auditors recently posed as network technicians and attempted to get IRS employees to reveal their usernames and passwords and/or change the password to one suggested by the "technician". The result: over one-third shared their passwords. If there is any good news in the story it is that the 35% figure represents a substantial reduction from the 71% who fell for the ruse in 2001."

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  1. Re:public passwords by lachlan76 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No offence, but you don't seem to have gotten the hang of bash ;)

    su && startx will only start X when you have dropped your new priv set.