Users’ Web Password Practices Pitiful
Only 1 in 7 business users bother to create different passwords for each Web site that requires authentication, a security company said Wednesday, a major security failure in the enterprise.
A Web poll conducted by Abingdon, U.K.-based Sophos showed that just 14 percent of the 533 business users surveyed use a unique password for each site. Forty-one percent, meanwhile, use the same password all the time, while the remaining 45 percent use “a few” different passwords.
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