35% of Gen Z said they never or rarely update passwords after a data breach affecting one of their accounts, according to Bitwarden. Only 10% reported always updating compromised passwords. 38% of Gen Z and 31% of Millennials only change a single character or simply recycle an existing password. 79% of Gen Z admit password reuse is risky, yet 59% recycle an existing password when updating accounts with companies that disclose data breaches. 55% of … More → The post People know password reuse is risky but keep doing it anyway appeared first on Help Net Security.
Of course, the passwords required today are impossible to remember. Unwieldy long and complex, while they aren’t the strongest defense layer anyway anymore. Session cookie theft, base64 encoded passwords, csrf, malcertising and good social engineering - but few of these are on the users’ side. Despite their final godawful implementation, passkeys are way better than passwords, and it’s good to see companies like Apple and Microsoft offer them to users in usable ways.
And thats why we have password managers.
And you log on to your password manager with a… password maybe? Yes, password managers are quite an enhancement but it doesn’t change that passwords are a bad solution.