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Showing posts with label Security. Show all posts

Monday, February 10, 2025

Powershell - A Simple Way to Create User Friendly Complex Passwords

Super simple.

I do a lot of password temporary resets. Some of the folks I work with prefer a default password, but I like to new passwords that translate easily when working with clients. 

So, at a minimum I like two words, a symbol, and a number. Something like: !TestPassword42

For my less savvy friends, I created the a code pile similar to the following password generator.


I'm hoping that the format is easy enough to follow. 

  • List blocks to work with.
  • Putting random list block elements together to create a password.
The list blocks are simple arrays, add, modify or delete elements as you need to each. I made a $Verbs, $Colors, $Nouns, and $Symbols for the basic parts. Then I also added a $Today and I demonstrate a number at the end.

This demonstration creates two outputs. 

  1. Creates passwords from $Symbols, $Verbs, $Colors, $Nouns, and a number from 1 to 99.
  2. Creates passwords from $Today, $Symbols, $Verbs, $Nouns, and a number from 1 to 99.

By this sample symbols, verbs, colors, nouns, and number you can support 9,022,860 a day.

Or, 3,293,343,900 a year.


You can get a copy of the code on GitHub.


Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Cool Maps

At least, I think they are cool...

Comment if you want anything added.

Live global air traffic   http://flightradar24.com/
Cyberthreat Real-Time Map   http://cybermap.kaspersky.com/
   I love the presentation. This is nice fish tank.
Live Attacks     http://map.ipviking.com/
   This one reminds me of the film War Games. "Would you like to play a game?"
Top daily DDoS attacks workdwide   http://www.digitalattackmap.com/
   Informative and clean.