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This 50-year-old technology has long been showing its age – despite the levels of complexity there are major password breaches reported weekly – but it has proved hard to replace.
The reported theft of 1.2 billion email passwords by Russian hackers earlier this month was just the latest in a long string of major password security breaches that have led some people to wonder if the use of passwords should be abandoned.
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After you have changed your major passwords, you can reset passwords for less important services.
Even if it becomes affordable, now that people are trying to make money off of this, there should be a major clampdown on both password sharing and legitimate avenues to watch shows online for free.
The default user names and passwords from major companies are fairly well known, which means intruders could easily gain access to your router and network.
Comcast has just been caught in a major security snafu: revealing the passwords of its customers' Xfinity-provided wireless routers in plaintext on the web.
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Back then, its default password wasn't a major hazard.
Although drawing a pattern seems easier than typing a password, it has a major security drawback since it can be very easy to be stolen.
"Oh jeez just found an ssh password to a production server of a major, MAJOR website in China on Github," she tweeted on Thursday.
Every time there is a major hack we learn how many users choose "password" or 1234 as their password for an account that is meant to be fairly secure.
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