Your smartphone has a fingerprint reader, as does your laptop. Fancy gadgets can authenticate your identity by scanning your iris. And yet, chances are good that for your day-to-day perambulations around the Internet, you authenticate yourself with just a password.
According to a new survey commissioned by Siber Systems, publisher of the popular
RoboForm password manager, you're not doing a very good job of protecting those secure sites.
The survey evaluated password practices in the U.S. and U.K. by polling 1,000 consumers. It evaluated how well participants hewed to correct password practices such as using a different password for every site, creating strong, unguessable passwords, and changing passwords every month or two. The results? Well, what did you expect? Passwords: they're doing it wrong.
