Cyber-criminals Exploit Easy-To-Remember Passwords

According to a research that was carried out recently, 83 per cent of the population of the UK tend to persist with short and easy to remember key words such as their names, dates of birth, pet names, maiden names or street names as pass words for securing the files in their laptops. This practice of their’s according to the research, put their laptops in high risk of being invaded since these kind of data can be conveniently extracted from public records. Besides, if this strategy is transposed to a business environment, it can simply turn the security of the company data extremely weak.

The Vice President of data protection security vendor Credant Technologies, Michael Callahan suggested that the using of simple and easy to remember passwords that is a widely applied human habit, on the other side strengthened the case of encryption. Callahan also added that workers who often develop close ties are risk group as well, as they tend to share password sensitive data with each other and the outside world.

However, the most advanced laptops that are armed with the latest face recognition, voice recognition and finger print recognition features, also come with equally advanced anti-virus, firewall and anti-spyware software package offers.