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Andy Meek
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One of the things that often goes hand-in-hand with the countless hacks and data leaks we've written about in the past, and which continues to dominate cybersecurity news headlines, is the frequency with which people keep making the same dumb password-related mistakes over and over again.
One of the most egregious mistakes that people make -- and the reason so many people's account credentials end up being found in the hands of hackers, thanks to sites like Have I Been Pwned -- is the re-use of passwords across multiple accounts. According to a new survey from the UK's National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), another involves people using their pet's name as an account password.
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Please stop doing this when you create a new password originally appeared on BGR.com on Sat, 10 Apr 2021 at 10:33:47 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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