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May 15, 2018 08:41 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/KtHJcXda-9o/smarter-people-dont-have-better-passwords-study-finds
Smarter People Don't Have Better Passwords, Study Finds
An anonymous reader shares a report: A study carried out at a college in the Philippines shows that students with better grades use bad passwords in the same proportion as students with bad ones. The study's focused around a new rule added to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guideline for choosing secure passwords -- added in its 2017 edition. The NIST recommendation was that websites check if a user's supplied password was compromised before by verifying if the password is also listed in previous public breaches. If the password is included in previous breaches, the website is to consider the password insecure because all of these exposed passwords have most likely been added to even the most basic password-guessing brute-forcing tools.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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