Browsing: cyber security in the financial sector

• Top financial sector employees working for the world’s richest companies use very poor passwords to secure business accounts, new research by NordPass shows.
• While cybersecurity experts keep urging businesses to take better care of corporate accounts, passwords such as “password,” “123456,” and “aaron431” still make it to the top of the financial industry’s list.
• Interestingly, people working for corporations in the financial industry seem to be seriously longing for a break, since “vacation”, “sunshine” and “summer” feature among their top 20 password picks.

A large number of people working for the world’s richest companies use very poor passwords to secure sensitive business accounts, leaving data for millions of customers and institutions vulnerable to hacking, a new study by NordPass shows. While cybersecurity experts repeatedly urge businesses to roll out military-grade data safety measures, passwords such as “password,” “123456,” and “aaron431” still make it to the top of the financial industry’s …