LastPass Reveals the Threats Posed By Passwords in the Workplace (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on Wednesday November 1, 2017 @08:00AM from the security-woes dept.

A reader shares a BetaNews report: A new report by LastPass -- The Password Expose -- reveals the threats posed, and the opportunities presented, by employee passwords. The report starts by pointing out that while nearly everyone (91 percent) knows that it is dangerous to reuse passwords -- with 81 percent of data breaches attributable to "weak, reused, or stolen passwords," more than half (61 percent) do reuse passwords. But the real purpose of the report is to "reveal the true gap between what IT thinks, and what's really happening." Jumping straight into the number, the report says that even in a 250-employee company, there are an average of 53,250 passwords in use -- a near-impossible number to keep track of and to know the strength of. LastPass found that people have nearly 200 passwords to remember, so it's little wonder that password reuse is an issue.

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password management company publishes report... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-11-01 08:02 · Score: 2, Insightful

extolling the virtues of using a password manager
threat revealed, thanks lastpass
Stupid Password Rules by Anonymous Coward · 2017-11-01 08:23 · Score: 5, Insightful

When the rules are "must contain 1 lower case, 1 upper case, 1 number, 1 special character, cannot reuse any of the past 20 passwords, must change every 30 days, etc etc etc", no shit we end up picking a pattern and recycling old passwords.