Passwords don’t matterEarlier this year, Alex Weinert warned that “Your Pa$$word doesn't matter,” In that he spelled out the reasons that even strong passwords aren’t necessarily effective. “When it comes to composition and length, your password (mostly) doesn’t matter,” Microsoft’s Weinert said. For example:— Password breach , i.e., the bad guys already have your passwordRisk: massive breaches happen all of the time. Phone-based Multi-Factor Authentication isn’t secure either:MFA based on phones, aka publicly switched telephone networks or PSTN, is not secure, according to Weinert. For example, Microsoft Authenticator or Google Authenticator.

Source: Forbes November 14, 2020 19:07 UTC