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

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 DannyB on Friday December 13 2019, @06:21PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday December 13 2019, @06:21PM (#931785) Journal

    I would point out:

    Your TLS security settings aren’t set to the defaults, which could also be causing this error.

    On SSLLabs, which I just tried again, [ssllabs.com] and it gets a Grade A on both its IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, I notice the following. SSLLabs only tested it on TLS 1.2 because SSLLabs says: "For TLS 1.3 tests, we only support RFC 8446."

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