
A survey has found 61 per cent of us are using the same password online for many different accounts, The Guardian reports. While this seems like a good idea to write down your password so as not to forget it, or better still, store it somewhere on your computer, The Guardian suggests you may as well just hand it over to the cyber criminals, due to the ease at which passwords can be found in seconds by bots and crawlers.
By The Guardian
Published: 18 January 2008 15:50 GMT
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