{"id":8385,"date":"2016-04-19T17:37:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T21:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=8385"},"modified":"2016-04-19T15:45:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T19:45:17","slug":"scary-password-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2016\/04\/19\/scary-password-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Scary Password Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doing a training thing for work next week. The training coordinator sent an email to 25 of us about how to access the learning portal. The username is email and password is a single word with an exclamation point. My first instinct was get in ASAP and change the password since so many other people have access to my password.<\/p>\n<p>Only.<\/p>\n<p>There is no link. I click and click and clink. I cannot find it.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I look at the source code and notice features in it that reveal this portal is running on WordPress. So, I added &#8220;wp-admin\/profile.php&#8221; to the URL and get a 404. I added it to the domain and bingo, I was\u00c2\u00a0at my own profile. So, I used the WordPress password feature to generate a strong password and change it.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many people have taken training from these people and bothered to change the password?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doing a training thing for work next week. The training coordinator sent an email to 25 of us about how to access the learning portal. The username is email and password is a single word with an exclamation point. My first instinct was get in ASAP and change the password since so many other people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1198],"tags":[3053,504,3112,1013,131],"class_list":["post-8385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-wordpress","tag-default-passwords","tag-itil-foundations","tag-password","tag-training"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-2bf","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}