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Gary Martin: Poor password management makes cyber attacks easy as ABC – PerthNow

It has become the top cybersecurity threat in workplaces right across the country — the bad password hygiene of you and your time-starved colleagues. Here are the worst of the worst.

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It has become the top cybersecurity threat in workplaces right across the country the bad password hygiene of you and your time-starved colleagues.
In a study released a few weeks ago, a computer engineer and researcher analysed a dataset of about 170 million leaked passwords from around the world.
The research revealed that more than seven million people logged in using 123456 to access accounts catapulting it to top spot of the 100 most commonly used passwords globally. Not far behind were …

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