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"?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday December 13 2019, @06:30PM (3 children)
ROT13( VIN# )
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 13 2019, @07:29PM (2 children)
For extra security:
ROT13(ROT13( VIN# ))
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 13 2019, @08:44PM (1 child)
Fuck it... I'm changing my password to the specific gravity of a neon photon in a vacuum at -458°K while at 3g acceleration divided by π to the 27th decimal.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 13 2019, @09:56PM
Make sure to put this in scientific notation so there will be an "e^" in the password -- much more secure when it's a combination of numbers, letters and symbols...