Tuesday, June 25, 2013

'Password fatigue' haunts Internet masses...

Looking for a safe password? You can give HQbgbiZVu9AWcqoSZmChwgtMYTrM7HE3ObVWGepMeOsJf4iHMyNXMT1BrySA4d7 a try. Good luck memorizing it.

Sixty-three random alpha-numeric characters -- in this case, generated by an online password generator -- are as good as it gets when it comes to securing your virtual life.

But as millions of Internet users have learned the hard way, no password is safe when hackers can, and do, pilfer them en masse from banks, email services, retailers or social media websites that fail to fully protect their servers.

And besides, with technology growing by leaps and bounds, why does the username-and-password formula -- a relic of computing's Jurassic era -- remain the norm?

"The incredibly short answer is, it's cheap," said Per Thorsheim, a Norwegian online security expert and organizer of PasswordsCon, the world's only conference dedicated to passwords, taking place in Las Vegas in July. Full story...

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