Are your employees using weak passwords?
2/03/2010
Are your employees using weak passwords at work? Worse yet, are they using the same password at work that they use for personal accounts, such as social networking sites? Imperva, a California data security company, recently analyzed the 32 million passwords exposed by a social networking site hacker. The analysis revealed that people still make use of weak passwords, at least on that particular site. Almost 500,000 people used either “12345,” “123456,” or “123456789.” Another nearly 62,000 people used “password” as their password. It’s not too surprising to learn that this phenomenon is widespread, and has led some sites to block the use of extremely common letter and/or number combinations as passwords.
