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iTWire Thursday, 06 May 2021 11:43 Halt! What’s the password? It’s World Password Day, does your password pass muster? Featured If you pass on having a strong password that you regularly update, and if you pass on using a password manager, then you won’t get a pass mark in the test of life, so please don’t fail yourself or the digital twin that is your online existence - please take passwords as seriously as you take locking your house, car or anything else you value. The first Thursday of May is World Password Day, and this year it’s today, 6 May 2021. First c...

Google introduces new features to protect passwords Google is taking steps to make people's accounts more secure by announcing two initiatives to mark World Password Day. Firstly it's automatically enrolling all Google account users in two-factor authentication. This will begin with accounts that are appropriately configured for this transition. You can see whether your account is ready in Security Checkup. Secondly it's introducing a new feature in its Password Manager called Password Import. This allows you to now seamlessly upload your passwords from third party sites or other password man...

(Image: Getty) To stop hackers, Google is preparing to automatically turn on two-factor authentication for user accounts rather than make it opt-in. “Soon we’ll start automatically enrolling users in 2SV [two-step verification] if their accounts are appropriately configured,” Mark Risher, a Google director of user security, wrote in a blog post. The announcement comes on World Password Day. Using a strong password is a crucial way to prevent hijackers from breaking into your account. But for even more protection, many services also offer two-factor authentication (2FA), which adds an e...

World Password Day Reminder: pAssw0rd1 Is A Terrible Idea Share Getty Images To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, hacks and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Lifehacker Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a fix. These days it’s hard to find any individual day that isn’t celebrating something. On the first Thursday in May, it’s apparently World Password Day. Regardless of whether or not you were aware of this, it is a great reminder to give your passwords some love.