A report that Russian hackers have hoarded 1.2 billion stolen passwords could prove to be an important catalyst for beefing up information security. The report highlights how reliance on passwords for security is outmoded and points to the need for more sophisticated, multifactor authentication. Analyst: The password heist is worse than the Target data breach in December 2013. Security expert: “This problem isn’t going away anytime soon. There’s growing sentiment to put stronger, secondary authentication techniques in place””]
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