The headache of changing passwords
Change Your Password Day — an annual reminder of just how bad passwords really are.
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Change Your Password Day — an annual reminder of just how bad passwords really are.
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This is the result of a security audit:
More than a fifth of the passwords protecting network accounts at the US Department of the Interior—including Password1234, Password1234!, and ChangeItN0w!—were weak enough to be cracked using standard methods, a recently published security audit of the agency found.
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The results weren’t encouraging. In all, the auditors cracked 18,174—or 21 percent—of the 85,944 cryptographic hashes they tested; 288 of the affected accounts had elevated privileges, and 362 of them belonged to senior government employees. In the first 90 minutes of testing, auditors cracked the hashes for 16 percent of the department’s user accounts…
Hackers rarely hack in anymore. They log in using stolen, weak, default, or otherwise compromised credentials. That’s why it’s so critical to break the password dependency cycle. But how can this be done?
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Four straight-talking tips to improve your online security, whether you’re a LifeLock customer or not.
There are a variety of roadblocks associated with moving to passwordless authentication. Foremost is that people hate change. End users push back when you ask them to abandon the familiar password-based login page, while app owners resist changing them…
https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2018/11/internet-con-men-ripped-off-pathe-nl-for-e19m-in-sophisticated-fraud/
https://lifehacker.com/how-password-constraints-give-you-a-false-sense-of-secu-1830564360
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3319704/data-protect…
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