A computer can guess more than 100 billion passwords per second — still think yours is secure?
Its a simple concept a shared piece of information kept secret between individuals and used to prove identity. Passwords in an IT contextemerged in the 1960swithmainframecomputers large centrally operated computers with remote terminals for user access. But why do we need to prove our identity to the systems we access? And why are passwords so hard to get right? What makes a good password? But we now have minimum length guidelines....