Once again, data shows an uncomfortable truth: the habit of choosing eminently hackable passwords is alive and well ‘123456’ continues to reign supreme as the most commonly-used password among people across the world, according to two reports, from NordPass and Comparitech , respectively. A full 25 percent of the top 1,000 most-used passwords are made up of nothing but numerals. In addition, ‘123456’ appealed to people of various age cohorts, as it was the most-favored optio
If you don’t look inside your environment, you can’t know its true state – and attackers count on that I recently had, what I thought, was a unique brainwave. (Spoiler alert: it wasn’t, but please read on!) As a marketing leader at ESET UK, part of my role is to communicate how our powerful and comprehensive solutions can be implemented to protect organisations, in a way that helps clarify the case for upgrading to higher levels of cybersecurity. And that need for clarity is