Passwords still rule when securing user accounts

A new global study reveals that 58 percent of people use a username and password to login to personal accounts and 54 percent do so to login to work accounts. The report from Yubico, based on a study of 20,000 people around the world carried out by Talker Research, reveals a worrying lack of awareness of best practices for authentication. 39 percent think username and password are the most secure and 37 percent think mobile SMS based authentication is the most secure, though both are highly susceptible to phishing attacks. In addition, 40 percent of respondents don't think or aren't… [Continue Reading]