Google issues warning on password strength
Credit: Brooke Crothers / GoogleYes, passwords are hell. Strong self-generated passwords often turn into a fog of forgotten letter combinations and phrases.And a weak password isn’t necessarily an easy-to-remember phrase like “bob123” but it can also be a strong password that’s being reused across multiple accounts and sites.
The point being that if a password is exposed in a data breach then hackers can potentially get into those other accounts.“[Users may] adopt a password pattern and make a few variations of it that turn out to be less secure than you might expect,” according to Tim Wade, Technical Director, CTO Team at Vectra, a San Jose, Calif.-based provider of technology which applies AI to detect and hunt for cyber attackers.Your passwords were exposed in a third-party data breach.
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