From the Wall Street Journal
Another Cyberattack? Follow These Password Tips From the Pros
By Katherine Rosman and Danny Yadron
It is human nature to gravitate toward passwords that are easy to remember. But security experts and software engineers say that is part of the problem, leading to breaches like Wednesday’s cyberattack on eBay.
Here are some helpful tips from the pros to achieve what they like to call “good password hygiene.”...
Hold the Salt
“Salting” a password–the practice using variations of a standard password for different sites (WSJfb and WSJtwtr, for example)–is not safe. “People who ‘salt’ maintain little password hygiene,” says Stuart Geiger, a doctoral student at University of California, Berkeley’s School of Information....