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Decade of Research Shows Little Improvement in Websites' Password Guidance

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 17 2018, @06:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the correct-horse-battery-staple dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

More than a decade after first examining the issue, research by the University of Plymouth has shown most of the top 10 English-speaking websites offer little or no advice guidance on creating passwords that are less likely to be hacked.

Some still allow people to use the word 'password', while others will allow single-character passwords and basic words including a person's surname or a repeat of their user identity.

Professor of Information Security Steve Furnell conducted the research, having carried out similar assessments in 2007, 2011 and 2014.

Have password restrictions ever helped?

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by bob_super on Tuesday July 17 2018, @07:45PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday July 17 2018, @07:45PM (#708483)

    > Unless you are the one in a billion tin-foil hatters who's favorite pizza place in 1994 was 3T%Zb%Y+Qs*8cSd9 and met his wife at B:fBwB2`LB]hz"8J

    Really ? Really ?
    Fuck, gotta go change my security questions. Thanks for spilling the beans, SomeGuy !

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