{"id":42075,"date":"2021-07-30T06:27:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T06:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/we-cant-believe-people-use-browsers-to-manage-their-passwords-says-maker-of-password-management-tools\/"},"modified":"2021-07-30T06:27:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T06:27:06","slug":"we-cant-believe-people-use-browsers-to-manage-their-passwords-says-maker-of-password-management-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/we-cant-believe-people-use-browsers-to-manage-their-passwords-says-maker-of-password-management-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"We can’t believe people use browsers to manage their passwords, says maker of password management tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems some of us are, in the year of our lord 2021, still reusing the same password for multiple sites, plugging personal gear into work networks, and perhaps overly relying on browser-managed passwords, judging from this poll.<\/p>\n

ThycoticCentrify, formed from a merger between two computer access management firms, said it surveyed about 8,000 people, and reports<\/a> just under a quarter admitted they reuse passwords across multiple websites \u2013 a cybersecurity no-no because it opens you up to credential stuffing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, about half of those working for large (5,000+ headcount) companies said they hadn’t received cybersecurity training in the past 12 months, even as the vast majority of all those polled said they’d seen an increase in the volume of phishing messages their org had received over the past year.<\/p>\n