How to Eliminate the Risks of Password Reuse
During the end of 2016, Yahoo declared that it had detected an enormous data breach, affecting over a billion user accounts. Even though affected people can blame Yahoo, the real offenders might be them themselves. Several data breaches happen because users use the same passwords for several platforms. Human beings have limited memory, and they have trouble in remembering various passwords for different accounts. For this reason, several humans reuse the same passwords. This way they do not have to remember many passwords. According to research conducted in the year 2006, people on an average use the same password for around four different platforms. This indicates that in case any cyber criminal gets admission to the login credentials for on one platform, there’s an exceptional prospect that same data will earn them entrance to other websites and services that use the same login combination. Even though one cannot disregard cybercriminals usage of spyware and malicious ...