Password Reuse Problems Persist Despite Known Risks ...two-thirds continue to use the same password or a variation, a survey finds. September 23, 2021 https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/password-reuse-problems-persist-despite-known-risks LastPass: New Report: 2021 Psychology of Passwords
Most people still reuse passwords across multiple sites Rejoice, hackers September 23, 2021 https://www.techspot.com/news/91388-most-people-reuse-passwords-across-multiple-sites.html PCMag: Stop Using the Same Password on Multiple Sites! No. Really.
I use the same password on roughly half of the internet. The point is on what webpages you are reusing the same password. I use it meaningless ones or some I access maybe once in a lifetime. I find more disturbing password managers checking, if passwords have been leaked by leaking those passwords, technically helping to create a dictionary attack using unique passwords, ingenious.
The problem is, that leaked database is a more serious problem. I could not register on some webpages using my default password, because they actually said, that it was already leaked, in 2006. I still use it though, lol. I find a simpler one, using a webpage as a password and add an unique identifier. Like here, the password would be: https://www.wilderssecurity.com15 (the number is a number of characters or use the year of registering).
I don't reuse passwords because I see no reason to do so. It's quite easy to make apps like KeePass generate passwords for you and I do safe those passwords via the browser's password manager. Because I simply don't see how third party password managers that use one master key to protect ALL of your passwords is a good idea.
That is definitely not a good idea, but convenient to use for most passwords used daily. I keep core passwords (like for recovery emails) offline only in a double encrypted file.
Yes exactly, because once hackers get access to your vault via master password, they now own all of your passwords. Of course it's the same as when malware steals the browser password file but this can be protected.
Interesting discussion considering the use of passwords and the need to renew passwords in prescribed time intervals are becoming so demanding it is getting impossible to keep up with all the passwords, for all the systems that require a password at work and home. So I was wondering if anyone has seen a password manager/generator out there, or in development, that will assist with this problem in the future?
Security.org: 68% of Americans use the same password across accounts October 9, 2021 https://venturebeat.com/2021/10/09/...ricans-use-the-same-password-across-accounts/ Security.org: America's Password Habits 2021
More than 90% of IT decision makers reuse passwords Bitwarden survey also finds that half of IT professionals share their passwords with colleagues December 1, 2021 Bitwarden: Survey 2021 - Password Decisions (PDF): https://bitwarden.com/images/resources/2022-password-decisions-survey.pdf
