Most people are still picking bad passwords and it’s probably because people are even more reliant on web services than ever.
LastPass, a password management software vendor, found that many people still re-use passwords across accounts in a study looking at the psychology of password behavior. That’s bad because if a hacker breaches credentials on one account they can break into any other account with a common password. And that’s just one of the many risks that come with poor password choices for online accounts.
