Half of Britishers Using Same Password for Multiple Accounts
According to marketing company CPP nearly half of Britishers using same password for their bank accounts, shopping websites and social networking sites. To make it even easier for fraudsters, many passwords are easy to guess. One in five people use their pet’s name, while 12 percent use memorable dates like birthdays. Ten percent go for their child’s name, and nine percent even use their mother’s maiden name.
Sarah Blaney, identity theft expert at CPP, said:
No sensible person would use the same key for their house, car and garage. In the same way, we shouldn’t use the one password for everything. If possible people should use multiple passwords with a combination of letters and numbers, which should be difficult to crack.
Source : TGDaily
Adobe has made a big change in Acrobat 9, often we see a new version of software has some more new features and more security improvements over the previous version of software but Adobe has changed this thing and Acrobat 9 uses simple passwords that most people use because it’s easy to remember but at the same easy and simple passwords are easy to crack also. Acrobat 9 supports password-based 256-bit AES encryption rather than 128-bit. it can also allow external brute-force cracking tools to attempt to guess document passwords more rapidly because fewer processor cycles are required to test each password guess. These tools operate independently of Acrobat and work directly on a password protected document by repeatedly guessing from lists of dictionary words like "turkey", "potato", and "pie" to see if the document will open.
