Delinea has released findings of a survey conducted at 2023 BlackHat USA Conference, results highlight enduring significance of password security

NCSC also urged everybody to avoid another common password mistake – recycling the same password over and over again. Instead, you should use a unique and strong password or passphrase for each of your accounts, especially the valuable ones, and whenever possible, couple it with an added later of protection – multi-factor authentication.

Passwords usually are – or certainly should be! – stored in a hashed form, where the hash can be used to verify that a supplied password is correct, but can’t be wrangled backwards to reveal what the password was