Password advice for 2017
I’ve written several posts over the past few years on passwords. In particularly my post on password strategy remains just as relevant now as when I wrote it several years ago. the National Institute of Standards and Technology recently updated its guidelines on creating secure passwords and it made some fairly significant changes. The main change was to remind user on the importance of password length and less on included special characters etc. From an…
Change Your Password Strategy
image credit In the wake of the Heartbleed bug, IT professionals are quickly patching their services to ensure this loophole has been closed. Also security professionals are advising people to change their passwords on any site or service that may have been compromised by Heartbleed. This is the perfect time to come up with a better password strategy. I recently checked and found that I have several hundred sites that I have a password for.…