A password is the most widely used form of authentication around the world. It’s imperial to create strong passwords that will keep your accounts safe.
Year after year the most common passwords discovered in various data breaches, include the same “123456”, “qwerty” and “password”. It’s the end of 2019 and it’s time to change that.
Your online accounts are vulnerable if you don’t use 2FA.
We all have dozens of online accounts. All of them require a password. Complex and unique. Password re-use is a huge problem with large data breaches becoming more and more common these days, with billions of data records lost or stolen since 2013.
Earlier this year hackers were passing around a gargantuan, unprecedented collection of 2.2 billion unique usernames and associated passwords.
With such a huge number of data breaches, do you think that there’s a slight chance at least one of your accounts was among them?
If anybody tried to log in to your account before you had a chance to change your password, the only thing that would save you would be two factor authentication ( 2FA ).
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