Coworker swore by sticky notes for passwords, then got hit with a breach

A guy in my office named Dave kept his entire login list on yellow sticky notes under his keyboard for 2 years. Last month our company got a phishing attack and someone used his credentials to mess up the shared drive. How do you get people like that to actually take password managers seriously?

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jadew6324d ago

Honestly Dave's system worked fine until it didn't, maybe the real problem was the phishing attack not his method.

thea85716d ago

Wait, 10 people used the same password and nobody thought that was a problem from day one? lol. I'm honestly shocked that Dave's system held up as long as it did with that kind of setup. The phishing attack was definitely the final nail in the coffin, but sharing a single password across that many accounts is like leaving your front door unlocked and blaming the burglar for walking in. It's just asking for trouble, especially if one of those 10 people has bad habits or clicks on something shady.

kai_park24d ago

Did you try using a password manager with auto-fill? That's what saved me from clicking on fake login pages twice now.