The business world has a password problem—starting with the fact that the No. 1 computer password employed by business users is, wait for it: “Password1”. Unfortunately, that’s just the most cringe-worthy example of bad enterprise security cited by Trustwave in its recently released Global Security Report for 2012.
Why “Password1”? Because “it satisfies the default Microsoft Active Directory complexity setting,” the IT security research firm noted. In other words, it’s got a capitalized letter, a number, and the requisite number of characters to qualify under basic password security settings.
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Canadians can’t seem to shake their addictions to the online world and are spending more time than ever on the Internet — about 17 per cent more than users in the U.S., according to a comScore report released Thursday.
The average amount of time Canadian Internet users spent online in December was 45.3 hours, up about four per cent from 43.5 hours in December 2010. That works out to an extra three minutes a day.
The Canadian total is about 17 per cent more than the average 38.6 hours Americans were online this past December, and about 28 per cent more than the average in the U.K.
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To put it bluntly, dumb people are too dumb to know it. Similarly, unfunny people don’t have a good enough sense of humor to tell.
This disconnect may be responsible for many of society’s problems.
With more than a decade’s worth of research, David Dunning, a psychologist at Cornell University, has demonstrated that humans find it “intrinsically difficult to get a sense of what we don’t know.” Whether an individual lacks competence in logical reasoning, emotional intelligence, humor or even chess abilities, the person still tends to rate his or her skills in that area as being above average.
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