Although news of data breaches and computer hacks make headlines almost daily, individual users and companies too often simply don’t protect their passwords strongly enough. Most users tend to select simple or common passwords or leave the default passwords of hardware and software they purchase unchanged, security vendor Imperva found after analyzing 32 million user names and passwords exposed when a database at social networking advertising network firm Rockyou.com was breached in December.
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The Byzantine Art of Password Protection
Posted by: Richard Adhikari January 22, 2010 12:05 PMAlthough news of data breaches and computer hacks make headlines almost daily, individual users and companies too often simply don’t protect their passwords strongly enough. Most users tend to select simple or common passwords or leave the default passwords of hardware and software they purchase unchanged, security vendor Imperva found after analyzing 32 million user names and passwords exposed when a database at social networking advertising network firm Rockyou.com was breached in December.