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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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Decade of Research Shows Little Improvement in Websites' Password Guidance
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If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers?
(Score: 2) by legont on Wednesday July 18 2018, @12:59AM
Some suckers ask two questions and want them both correct. However, your idea is good, thank you.
I personally use a private password generator with two seeds - master one and one related to the name of the target. This way I don't have to store passwords and they are sufficiently difficult. Works fine except the algorithm can't fit sometimes opposite requirements.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.