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What The Yahoo! Compromise Teaches About Password Hygiene

Yahoo! confirmed 500 million accounts were stolen from the company in 2014, releasing names, email addresses, personal records and more. The Yahoo! compromise surely has exacerbated the password reuse problem for lots of users. Password managers are an effective tool because they take the hassle out of creating and storing secure passwords. The more people aware about password security, the less chances hackers have to use our personal information in their advantage, says Robyn Lister. Lister: Hackers are trained to create and use bad passwords because typing long passwords into a phone is a pain.”]

Source: https://informationsecuritybuzz.com/articles/yahoo-compromise-teaches-password-hygiene/

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