Outdated Password Practices are Widespread

Georgia Tech Research, 17 Nov 23). via ACM TechNews

A majority of the world's most popular websites are putting users and their
data at risk by failing to meet minimum password requirement standards,
according to researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia
Tech). The researchers analyzed 20,000 randomly sampled websites from the
Google Chrome User Experience Report, a database of 1 million websites and
pages. Using a novel automated tool that can assess a website's password
creation policies, they …

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