{"id":6519,"date":"2014-10-10T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/?p=6519"},"modified":"2014-10-14T10:49:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T08:49:41","slug":"whats-wrong-with-your-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/2014\/10\/whats-wrong-with-your-password\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->What&#8217;s wrong with your password?<!--:--><!--:af-->Wat is verkeerd met jou wagwoord?<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en--><span style=\"color: #444444;\">Passwords are an important aspect of computer security and your electronic key to the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #444444;\">network of Stellenbosch University.\u00a0But which passwords work best?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lorrie Faith Cranor is a security researcher and an Associate Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering and Public Policy at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scs.cmu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carnegie Mellon University<\/a>. In March of this year she presented a TED talk on her study of thousands of real passwords to figure out the surprising, very common mistakes that users \u2014 and secured sites \u2014 make to compromise security.<\/p>\n<p>Watch her very interesting talk on her research on passwords below. After watching Lorrie&#8217;s talk you might also want to change your own password. On how to do that and more password tips, have a look at our <a href=\"https:\/\/stbsp01.stb.sun.ac.za\/innov\/it\/it-help\/Wiki%20Pages\/Change%20password.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">wiki<\/a>\u00a0or make use of the <a href=\"http:\/\/midtier.sun.ac.za\/passwordmanagement\/%20\" target=\"_blank\">self help<\/a> function online.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/lorrie_faith_cranor_what_s_wrong_with_your_pa_w0rd\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/lorrie_faith_cranor_what_s_wrong_with_your_pa_w0rd<\/a><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"300\" height=\"150\" controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/lorrie_faith_cranor_what_s_wrong_with_your_pa_w0rd\" \/><\/video><!--:--><!--:af-->Wagwoorde is `n belangrike komponent van rekenaarsekuriteit en jou elektroniese sleutel to Universiteit Stellenbosch se netwerk. Maar watter wagwoorde is die mees effektief?<\/p>\n<p>Lorrie Faith Cranor is `n sekuriteitsnavorser en `n Mede-professor in Rekenaarwetenskap en van Ingenieurswese en Openbare beleid by die\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scs.cmu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carnegie Mellon Universiteit<\/a>. In Maart vanjaar het sy `n TED Talks aanbieding gegee oor haar studie van duisende oorspronklike\u00a0wagwoorde om vas te stel watter verrassende, baie algemene foute gebruikers, sowel as veilige webwerwe, maak en sekuriteitsrisikos veroorsaak.<\/p>\n<p>Kyk gerus onder na haar interessante gevolgtrekkings oor wagwoorde. Jy mag moontlik daarna jou eie wagwoord wil hersien. Instruksies oor hoe om dit te doen kan op ons\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stbsp01.stb.sun.ac.za\/innov\/it\/it-help\/Wiki%20Pages\/Change%20password.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">wiki<\/a>\u00a0gedoen word of probeer die <a href=\"http:\/\/midtier.sun.ac.za\/passwordmanagement\/%20\" target=\"_blank\">selfhelp<\/a>-funksie aanlyn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/lorrie_faith_cranor_what_s_wrong_with_your_pa_w0rd\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/lorrie_faith_cranor_what_s_wrong_with_your_pa_w0rd<\/a><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"300\" height=\"150\" controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/lorrie_faith_cranor_what_s_wrong_with_your_pa_w0rd\" \/><\/video><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passwords are an important aspect of computer security and your electronic key to the\u00a0network of Stellenbosch University.\u00a0But which passwords work best?\u00a0 Lorrie Faith Cranor is a security researcher and an Associate Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering and Public Policy at\u00a0Carnegie Mellon University. In March of this year she presented a TED talk on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29187],"tags":[29169,27580],"class_list":["post-6519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security-2","tag-online-security","tag-password"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 03:43:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6519"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6600,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519\/revisions\/6600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}