{"id":14481,"date":"2019-02-01T10:30:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T18:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/02\/01\/news-8233\/"},"modified":"2019-02-01T10:30:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T18:30:15","slug":"news-8233","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/02\/01\/news-8233\/","title":{"rendered":"Change Your Password Day Strong Password Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Alex Drozhzhin| Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 14:12:22 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Change Your Password Day<\/em> was established in 2012 and has been celebrated annually since then. But what might’ve seemed as a good idea back then is somewhat outdated in 2019. That’s why we’re proposing to change it to Strong Password Day<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Changing passwords regularly doesn’t help<\/h2>\n

A decade ago, it used to be a common security practice to change passwords regularly. However, nowadays it’s not considered to be effective. Why is that? Well, when it comes to passwords, there are actually two parts to the problem. First, passwords have to be hard to guess to effectively protect the account they are used for, and second passwords have to be easy to remember in order for us to use them. Whilst changing passwords regularly does have some<\/em> positive impact on the first part, it drastically complicates the second.<\/p>\n

The problem really stems from the fact that we, as humans, don’t like to remember long, complicated passwords \u2014 we’re not machines. So, we do what comes naturally \u2014 we cheat. When we are forced to change a password, we make small changes in existing passwords, instead of creating a brand new one. To illustrate the point, let’s take the password ‘batman2018’. Most of us, if asked to change this, would probably just change it to ‘batman2019’ \u2014 the system sees a different password, but technically it’s the same and crucially, it wouldn’t take a genius to guess the new password, if the old one had been compromised.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Change your password day\u2019 is upon us, but instead of just changing your password, we think it\u2019s better to create strong passwords. Simply changing your password doesn\u2019t necessarily make your accounts more secure \u2013 in fact, it could actually do the opposite. Research shows that constantly changing passwords leads us all to create weaker passwords over time. So instead, we\u2019re asking everybody to create STRONG, memorable passwords that you don\u2019t have to change all the time. #passwords #changeyourpasswordday #strongpassword #themoreyouknow #cybersecurity #usefultoknow #tips #tricks<\/a><\/p>\n

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