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49% of Workers, When Forced to Update Their Password, Reuse the Same One With Just a Minor Change

posted by martyb on Friday December 13 2019, @03:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the https://xkcd.com/936/ dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

49% of workers, when forced to update their password, reuse the same one with just a minor change:

A survey of 200 people conducted by security outfit HYPR has some alarming findings.

For instance, not only did 72% of users admit that they reused the same passwords in their personal life, but also 49% admitted that when forced to update their passwords in the workplace they reused the same one with a minor change.

Furthermore, many users were clearly relying upon their puny human memory to remember passwords (42% in the office, 35% in their personal lives) rather than something more reliable. This, no doubt, feeds users' tendency to choose weak, easy-to-crack passwords as well as reusing old passwords or making minor changes to existing ones.

What is so bad about changing "Password1" to "Password2"?

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  • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday December 13 2019, @04:49PM (1 child)

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Friday December 13 2019, @04:49PM (#931750) Journal

    If someone has physical access to a computer, they can rip out a hard disk pretty quickly

    I wish. Hard disk physically soldered in place, dirty rotten built-in obsolescence bastards.

    Want more storage? Buy a new machine because it's not worth unsoldering the old one and still having older hardware.

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  • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday December 14 2019, @12:01AM

    by RS3 (6367) on Saturday December 14 2019, @12:01AM (#931873)

    Or plug in a USB stick or external drive.