I’ve been saying for years that it’s bad security advice, that it encourages poor passwords. Lorrie Cranor, now the FTC’s chief technologist, agrees: By studying the data, the researchers identified common techniques account holders used when they were required to change passwords. A password like “tarheels#1”, for instance (excluding the quotation marks) frequently became “tArheels#1” … Read More “Frequent Password Changes Is a Bad Security Idea” »
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Earlier this month, Mark Burnett released a database of ten million usernames and passwords. He collected this data from already-public dumps from hackers who had stolen the information; hopefully everyone affected has changed their passwords by now. News articles. Powered by WPeMatico
This is what happens when a PR person gets hold of information he really doesn’t understand. “Mustang” is the 16th most common password on the Internet according to a recent study by SplashData, besting both “superman” in 21st place and “batman” in 24th Mustang is the only car to appear in the top 25 most … Read More “Ford Proud that "Mustang" Is a Common Password” »
Citadel is the first piece of malware I know of that specifically steals master passwords from password managers. Note that my own Password Safe is a target. Powered by WPeMatico