It’s 2014 And Our Passwords Aren’t Getting Better

2013 was a wildly visible year for cyber security and online privacy. There were, of course, the monumental NSA and Snowden revelations, but 2013 was also a year in which tech companies like Adobe, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn all fell victim to some for of cyberattack. Large scale news organizations watched as major email phishing scams compromised their social media accounts and, in one case, triggered a trading run on the stock market. And yet for all the visibility, punditry, and drama, new data suggests that internet users are still terrible at choosing a good password.

 

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