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Title    Decade of Research Shows Little Improvement in Websites' Password Guidance
Date    Tuesday July 17 2018, @06:24PM
Author    Fnord666
Topic   
from the correct-horse-battery-staple dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/07/17/153203

Phoenix666 writes:

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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  2. "offer little or no advice guidance on creating passwords that are less likely to be hacked" - https://phys.org/news/2018-07-decade-websites-password-guidance.html
  3. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=27904

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