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Friday, October 9, 2009

Article – Phishing or not, leaked passwords show lazy habits

This article, called Phishing or not, leaked passwords show lazy habits, by Elinor Mills, is quite interesting.

It is not a novelty the fact that there are bad practices when dealing with passwords – but it is also true that people are usually good at making risk assessments and judge which level of protection to choose, depending on the value of the asset to protect …

--- Posted by Marco Casassa Mont (here and here) ---

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