The first Thursday of May 5th of each year as World Password Day.
World Password Day came along to provide a warning to the world, and to spread awareness that taking care with your passwords is vital to protecting yourself against identity theft. Business insider did research to determine just how vulnerable account were, and discovered that 10,000 of the most common passwords allow access to 98% of all accounts. Tell us that isn’t more than a little terrifying?
Security researcher Mark Burnett first encouraged people to have a “password day,” where they update important passwords in his 2005 book Perfect Passwords. Inspired by his idea, Intel Security took the initiative to declare the first Thursday in May World Password Day in May 2013. Submitted by Big Monocle in 2016, Password Day is meant to create awareness of the need for good password security.
Get more information visit this site, PasswordDay.org. to get good ideas, warning stories, and just generally enlighten yourself on ways to secure yourself better, and the dangers of not doing so.
