Call to improve password security

Jeebizz · 08-13-2010, 10:21 AM

"The growing use of graphics cards as surrogate supercomputers could spell trouble for users of short passwords."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10963967

XavierP · 08-13-2010, 11:14 AM

Countered with this:

A team of researchers has discovered that the use of graphics cards as surrogate supercomputers could spell trouble for people who use passwords that they are capable of remembering.

http://newsarse.com/2010/08/13/if-yo...n-researchers/

The call should be to improve people's understanding of social engineering, as this article from 2006 will show:
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/200...osec_blog_two/

jennypatel · 08-27-2010, 12:07 AM

Informative post. I hope members of this community like this post and will implement the ways in order to improve the password security.