DO: Change your passwords every couple of months.DO: Use special characters, numbers, and capital letters.DO: Use a different password for each account.And if people are practicing good password hygiene, they’re engaging in the following recommended practices: From social media accounts to banking to online shopping to utilities, credentials-which usually include a username and password-are required for each. Current state of affairsĪccording to a poll by Intel Security, the average person has 27 discrete online logins. And that has become burdensome enough to send Yoda himself over to the Dark Side. And while we all wouldn’t mind having a lovable droid guard our passwords as loyally as R2D2 guarded the blueprints for the Death Star, the reality is we’ve got to do the guarding ourselves. A little over 50 percent of all breaches in the last year leveraged either stolen or weak passwords.Ĭoincidentally, today is also Star Wars Day (May the 4 th Be with You). How many of those pledges do you think stick? According to the 2017 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report, not many.
To celebrate this nuisance, the holiday gods have given us World Password Day, where thousands of people come together online and pledge to improve their password habits. This is a guest blog from Wendy Zamora at Malwarebytes, first published here.
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