THE winner of the Password Challenge organised during the recent BruCERT roadshow at TechXpo 2015 was awarded yesterday in an event held at IT Protective Security Services Sdn Bhd (ITPSS) in Beribi.
In its capacity as Brunei Computer Emergency Response Team (BruCERT), ITPSS organised the challenge with the objective of raising public awareness on the importance of creating complex passwords to protect users against unauthorised access.
Password Challenge required each participant to create a unique password by using a combination of characters and symbols. The password should be complex yet easy for the person to remember.
At the end of the roadshow, the BruCERT team would determine how long it would take to crack each password. The person whose password took the longest time to crack won the challenge.
Haji Mas Zuraime bin Haji Abdul Hamid, Head of BruCERT (Left), presenting the prize to the winner of Password Challenge, Al-Muhammad Nasrullah Ataullah bin Rahmat. – PHOTO COURTESY OF ITPSS
According to Haji Mas Zuraime bin Haji Abdul Hamid, Head of BruCERT, “This is a good way to show the public that the harder the password, the more difficult it would be for hackers to crack it.
“The catch is that the user would have to remember their password in order to qualify as the winner. There’s no point in creating a complex password if you can’t remember it.”
Out of the 710 registered passwords, the overall winner was Al-Muhammad Nasrullah Ataullah bin Rahmat, who received a GoPro camera presented to him by Haji Mas Zuraime.
The Password Challenge was first conducted in 2012.
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