From a research from SpyCloud shows that about 65 percent of all Internet users still use the same password for multiple accounts. This remains a major risk, as it allows hackers to penetrate multiple accounts with one password.
SpyCloud collected 1.7 billion passwords and usernames from more than 750 data breaches. After analyzing this data, they concluded in a report that the majority of Internet users use the same passwords for different accounts. A large amount of these people do not realize the risks this poses. If one of your passwords appears in a data breach, multiple accounts of yours are at risk. If each password is unique, that risk is much lower.
SpyCloud also mentions that a large proportion of passwords are often still too simple. For example, many people use names of famous people, their pets, their children, and so on for their passwords. Characters from Netflix and Disney+ series also remain popular. The most common are Loki, Falcon and Wanda. Such a password with only lowercase and uppercase letters can be cracked within 4 milliseconds by a cybercriminal. Starting from 11 characters, it can thus take more than 200 years for your password to be cracked.
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A password manager randomly generates difficult and strong passwords. You can choose whether to use them or not. Also, 1password saves your passwords automatically after you give permission to do so.
Another tool that keeps passwords more secure is multifactor authentication (MFA). One example is two-step verification. This security makes it virtually impossible to log in with a password, username or e-mail address alone. If you want to log in, you need a physical device to confirm that it really is you. So a remote hacker can do virtually ‘nothing’ this way.
Microsoft recently revealed that MFA is only used by just under 22 percent of all Azure Active Directory customers. While, according to Microsoft, MFA would prevent almost every criminal login attempt. So MFA is not yet used enough, and many organizations have not implemented it either.
All this new information together is a reason for us to keep bringing it to your attention than MFA or 2FA and a password manager are critical to your security. And of course help we are happy to help you with that.
