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Changing your Password Frequently Doesn’t Keep you Safer
📅 - While we've all been told to change our passwords regularly and force our employees to do so, it doesn't keep you safer. According to the Federal Trade Commission chief technologist Lorrie Cranor, frequently changing your passwords regularly doesn't make you safer online. Cranor challenged the position on passwords and she won by using research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Carleton University.
Due to this new information both the US government and the FTC are slowly adapting. Some of the employees that used to change passwords regularly now have no need to do so.
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