I interviewed 2 people all asking the same question, "how many accounts do you have with a password and how many of those are the same?" The first one has 35 accounts and at least 20 of them have the same password. The second person has only 14 accounts and 8 of them have the same passwords. Now a days, if a hacker gets into only one of those they can hack into more. It's safer to have different passwords. With the first person I interviewed if a hacker was to get into one of those accounts they could get into 19 more easily.
Your passwords now need to have a capital letter, numbers, and it needs to be very long. The most common passwords are 123456, yes, and no. In our society now, people are careless about their passwords. They don't care what it is but they will for sure after it's been hacked but by then it's to late. NEVER USE THE SAME PASSWORD! EVER! Long passwords are the best.
A password is a single point of failure open to many avenues of attack. The majority of hackers are looking for money, are over seas syndicates, or just bored kids. There are places on the internet now where hackers can find out everything about you. For example white pages, they allow hackers to look up a name and then they give them where you have lived, where you live now, how many kids you got, ect..
People are now using biometrics. Examples are iris scanners, finger print scanner, DNA or blood samples, and voice authinefication. The differences between biometrics and passwords are you can always change your password after it's been hacked but you can not change your DNA or fingerprint. Banks are now monitoring your patterns. If you only take out a little money or put a little money in and then one day you put a lot in or take a lot out then they get suspicious and call you to make sure everything is all right.
As I have said before, passwords can no longer protect you.
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