Password Security
Why your business needs a Password Manager
Trying to remember your password for every website, portal, tool and piece of software is borderline impossible. Some organisations like to solve this problem by using a very simple and memorable password, variations of the same password, or worse – the exact same password for everything! That’s just asking for trouble. Simple and memorable passwords […]
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Australian Government Security Audit Shows Why Your Business Needs A Password Manager
Released earlier this week by the state’s auditor general, a Western Australian government security audit revealed that 26% of its officials had incredibly weak and easily guessable passwords. More than 5,000 of the 234,000 passwords across 17 government agencies included the word “password”. This included 1,464 people using “Password123”, 812 using “password1” and 176 […]
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How to create a strong password that’s easy to remember (with examples)
It goes without saying that a strong password is important for your on and offline security—both at home and at work (especially given the new Australian data notification legislation put in place earlier this year, which could see businesses and other organisations fined up to $1.8million for data breaches, unauthorised access to personal information and […]
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Password Guru admits he had it wrong
14 years ago Bill Burr became the guru of passwords. His advice was to do away with memorable words in favour of garbled strings of letters, numbers and special characters that would be near-impossible for criminals to guess. This was and still is accepted as gospel around the world. He now acknowledges that the information he published […]
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