"Security Researchers Want to Force People to Use Different Passwords for Every Website"

Professors from the Computer Science department at the University of North Carolina, Ke Coby Wang and Michael Reiter, have proposed a way to stop people from reusing passwords on different websites. The professors emphasize the importance of collaboration between popular websites in the implementation of measures to prevent users from using identical or similar passwords across websites. This article continues to discuss the security risks of password reuse and the method proposed by researchers to eliminate the practice. 

TechRepublic reports "Security Researchers Want to Force People to Use Different Passwords for Every Website"

 

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