Hopefully, no one reading this blog is foolish enough to use simple passwords. Even so, if you have a habit of using one password for every website and/or your passwords are simple, you should really rethink your digital security. Personally, I use 1Password to keep track of all my website passwords, and I use its built-in password generator to create random passwords. Since it keeps track of them for me, I don’t have to worry about remembering them (it will fill it in automatically for you – yeah, it sounds insecure, but it isn’t). Sites more prone to hacking (like Facebook) get passwords of maximum length and complexity.
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BBC News – Call to improve password security
Researchers say the growing number of processors on graphics cards will soon make it trivial for them to crack short passwords.
A password of seven characters or less will soon be “hopelessly inadequate” they claim.
The researchers suggest passwords should be at least 12 characters long to be safe.
