{"id":223200,"date":"2026-03-13T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/the-3-things-you-need-to-know-about-passwords-from-a-security-expert\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:10:10","slug":"the-3-things-you-need-to-know-about-passwords-from-a-security-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/the-3-things-you-need-to-know-about-passwords-from-a-security-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"The 3 things you need to know about passwords, from a security expert"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 3 things you need to know about passwords, from a security expert<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2519280-the-3-things-you-need-to-know-about-passwords-from-a-security-expert\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-03-13 11:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.newscientist.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Passwords are both a curse and a blessing<\/p>\n

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Passwords occupy an odd place in our lives. They\u2019re both a blessing \u2013 keeping our data and information safe from anyone intruding into our IT systems and accessing them \u2013 and a curse, in that they\u2019re often difficult to manage and tricky to remember. Cybersecurity expert Jake Moore at ESET, a European cybersecurity firm, is here with three tips to help you rethink your relationship with passwords \u2013 and hopefully keep hackers at bay.<\/p>\n

1. Use a password manager, even if it feels counterintuitive<\/h2>\n

I\u2019m a big fan of password managers, and I think they\u2019re wildly underused. Depending on where you are in the world, and who\u2019s doing the study, only around one-third of people use password managers. That to me seems a criminally low number. They\u2019re a gamechanger. They give you the ability to create long passwords for your account and to store them securely. They\u2019re so good at generating the passwords for you, you don\u2019t have to think of one.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s important because we know that when people are asked to come up with their own passwords, they tend to rely on things or words they know \u2013 all of which could be information a hacker or bad actor could have on you, and could make you vulnerable. They also nullify another big risk, which is people reusing passwords across accounts. If a password is used by someone else, even just one person, and that person\u2019s account is breached, it can end up in the tables of vulnerable passwords that are used to try and probe and test getting access to accounts.<\/p>\n

I sometimes wonder why people don\u2019t use password managers more. It might be that they misunderstand how password managers work, thinking that storing passwords online somewhere that can be unlocked with a single password is insecure. But it\u2019s not. The vault in which the passwords are stored isn\u2019t just a simple list of passwords sitting on a server: your data is encrypted on…<\/p>\n

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