passwords

Everyone hates passwords. They were useful when fewer websites existed, but now that our digital footprint has increased dramatically -- the average person manages as many as 100 passwords online -- passwords are now more of a risk than a solution, writes Reza Zaheri, Chief Information Security Officer, Quantum Metric.

Material from a horrific data breach earlier this year at a UK company holding the details of thousands of IT contractors revealed that staff were routinely storing credentials in clearly flagged Word or Excel documents -- titled, among other examples, “useful links and passwords”, “passwords”, and “useful passwords”. The Stack&

Bad password hygiene may be a culprit...