Leading internet brands including Amazon and Wikipedia are failing to support users with advice on how to securely protect their data, a study shows.
Leading internet brands including Amazon and Wikipedia are failing to support users with advice on how to securely protect their data, a study shows.
More than a decade after first examining the issue, research by the University of Plymouth has shown most of the top ten English-speaking websites offer little or no advice guidance on creating passwords that are less likely to be hacked.
Some still allow people to use the word ‘password’, while others will allow single-character passwords and basic words including a person’s surname or a repeat of their user identity.
Professor of Information Security Steve Furnell conducted the research, having carried out similar assessments in 2007, 2011 and 2014.
He said it was concerning that more than a decade after the issue was first highlighted companies were not doing more to aid consumers amid the increased threat of global cyber-attacks.
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