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

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: 2) by nobu_the_bard on Tuesday July 17 2018, @08:33PM

    by nobu_the_bard (6373) on Tuesday July 17 2018, @08:33PM (#708505)

    Fair concern, but actually I'm stuck in a contract with them through 2020 for some things. Won't bore you with the details.

    I think the credit union will have an app for phones to do deposits inside the next year, so I'll probably start using them more. They've never jerked me around so much.

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