Tag: Password Reuse

The Collection #1 data breach, which exposed nearly 733 million unique email messages and 21 million passwords, underscores the urgent need for enterprises to adopt multifactor authentication.

Splash Data released its list of the worst passwords of 2018. How does your enterprise stack up, and what advice can you give users to help improve their password security hygiene in the new year?

NIST has changed its long-standing recommendations for password management, favoring minimal user friction over complexity requirements and regular password updates.

Common password management habits have been insecure and out-of-date for a while. But despite knowledge of the risks around recycled credentials and other gaps, users have been slow to change tack.

A recent study showed that employees are failing to follow basic corporate cybersecurity best practices, such as creating unique passwords across multiple accounts and using two-factor authentication.

A group of researchers proposed a new framework that would enable web services to share users' password hash data in an effort to reduce password reuse.

A recent report found that poor password security practices persist despite heightened awareness around data breaches.

To coincide with the NCAA Division 1 men's basketball tournament, security researchers recently published a bracket that named "Tiger" as the most common password related to sports teams and mascots.

Hear that sound? It's not opportunity knocking — it's an account checker trying to access your site using stolen login credentials.

IBM's new "Future of Identity Study" revealed that while millennials are less likely to use complex passwords than their older counterparts, they embrace new technologies for identity protection.