Security News > 2021 > May > World Password Day: How to keep your personal and work data safe
I reset all my passwords the other day, since May 6 is World Password Day, a day dedicated to promoting good password management strategies.
Take the phrase "I love to eat Boston seafood in the summer!" and generate a password based on that to form IlteBsins! for your password.
A recent report by NordVPN found that "Despite daily logins across our social media and computing devices, only about half of Americans change their passwords immediately after a site they frequent has a data breach, followed by 25% who change their passwords within a week or two, 10% within a few months, and 8% who never do. When it comes to sites Americans rarely visit, less than half change their passwords immediately after a data breach followed by 33% within a week or two, 14% within a few months and 10% who never do."
Most people lean on familiar password patterns, which gave attackers a leg up in stealing valuable data in 2020.
A lot of money goes unspent in the online world when a shopper forgets their password at checkout.
Fran Rosch: Passwords are a crutch because they are familiar, and no one could have predicted the multitude of platforms a single person would want or need to access or how cumbersome usernames and passwords would become in today's world.