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We humans struggle with this work and often succumb by abandoning the basic hygiene of using a different password at every site. Password reuse turns a data breach at one site into an opportunity for attackers to try your exposed password at others. “I don’t know anyone who thinks they can keep complex and different passwords memorized,” emailed Lorrie Cranor, director of the CyLab Security and Privacy Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. “If you adopt a password manager, you don’t have to think about coming up with unique and strong passwords anymore and you don’t have to fig...

Get Permission The Biden administration is reviewing former President Donald Trump's policies addressing potential national security and cybersecurity concerns about certain Chinese-owned companies as it looks to forge new plans for dealing with a wide range of issues related to China. In the last four years, the Trump administration viewed certain Chinese companies - especially telecommunication technology companies, such as Huawei, and those offering social media apps, such as TikTok - as threats to U.S. national security because they could collect large amounts of data on American citize...

Carnegie Mellon Develops Secure Password Policy That Actually Works Share: Welcome to Thomas Insights — every day, we publish the latest news and analysis to keep our readers up to date on what’s happening in industry. Sign up here to get the day’s top stories delivered straight to your inbox. A clear consensus on what constitutes a “strong” password has long been pursued. But if you happen to have registered for more than one online account you’ll know full well that no such consensus has been reached. On occasion, you’ll see a color-coded bar next to the password field that...

Dec. 11, 2020 9:11 am ET | WSJ Pro Good day. As greater scrutiny falls on cloud providers and their potential systemic importance, Alphabet Inc.’s Google Cloud business has turned to Wall Street for its first security chief, WSJ Pro’s James Rundle reports. Also today: Nutrition labels for smart devices; France wallops Google, Amazon with privacy fines; Spotify exposed customer data; FCC starts to revoke China Telecom licenses; and GE Healthcare works on security fixes for ultrasound and imaging devi...