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December 2, 2014

Techy Tuesday: Password Mistakes To Avoid

Go ahead, try and be clever about your passwords.  You are likely making predictable choices, according to Jeff Fox, leaving yourself vulnerable.  How smart are your tricks?  Consider this:

In a 2013 study for DARPA (the Federal Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) called Pathwell, security consulting company KoreLogic found that, among the thousands of users within an unnamed Fortune 100 company, roughly half had relied on just five patterns to compose their passwords and 85 percent had relied on just 100 patterns.… Read the rest