Longer passwords aren’t safe from intensive cracking efforts

Longer passwords aren’t safe from intensive cracking efforts – By Help Net Security helpnetsecurity.com

The report found that 31.1 million breached passwords had over 16 characters, showing longer passwords aren’t safe from being cracked. 40,000 admin portal accounts were found to be using ‘admin’ as a password, and only 50% of organizations scan for compromised passwords more than once a month.