"What do you mean I'm your internet security?"
Key findings from a Google survey:
Out of 2,000 adults surveyed...
- Half choose to write down the password.
- One in ten have correctly guessed the password of a co-worker.
- A third use their partner's name.
- Of those, a fifth of them keep using it after they are no longer with the partner.
- About half have shared their password with others.
- One in six respondents use their pet's name as their password.
Oh Fluffy, you're a cute cat, but you make for a terrible password.
With password managers being as commonplace as they are, one might think the average user wouldn't choose to make such bad decisions when it comes to something as important as a password. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case. For more security-conscious individuals, there's Webroot SecureAnywhere Complete which has both a password manager and a password generator. In combination, you'll never need to manually enter another password to a web site ever again, and the password you'll be using will be the best password possible. Or you can keep using "spot," - your call. 🙂