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 captain normal on Friday December 13 2019, @07:49PM
Right...Just try remembering that 20 minutes from now. Unless you write it down (maybe like the NASA guy in a TV interview a few years ago, in the background was a computer on which there was a clearly visible post it note with a line of characters under the label "password'). The problem is that there are way too many places where a password is required. Way too many for our simple monkey brains to remember them all.
Whoever comes up with a real solution could be rich enough to buy a small country.
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