I’ll show you my password, if you’ll show me yours
On the heels of the Zappos cyber robbery last Sunday that left 24M customers fretting over stolen passwords and email addresses, articles are being published about how people can protect themselves online. The number one point is always about passwords. Clean up your passwords. Never Share Your Password. Create different passwords for different accounts.
Sage advice, which we at AVAST support. We even have a dedicated password manager called avast! EasyPass to help you juggle it all. The theft at Zappos and the struggle for greater online privacy made it even more startling when I read about the growing trend among teenagers to share their passwords as an act of trust with their current BFFs.
The Pew Internet and American Life Project discovered that “for some wired teens, a sign of true friendship is for one Internet user to share his screen name and password with a buddy. While such behavior might seem strange in light of concerns about online privacy, the teens who share their passwords see it as emblematic of their trust in their friends.”
The report said that girls are more likely to share their passwords with friends, and teens age 14-17 are more likely to share their security codes than younger ones. Password sharing is especially common among users of (continue reading…)
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Category: Ethical Hacking
