49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same one with minor change
This should not be a surprise, as this supports the NIST's revised recommendations (from June 2017!) that passwords should <i>not</i> expire [0], because it actually leads to less-secure passwords for this exact reason.<p>Furthermore, many corporate systems do not integrate well with password managers, such as when first logging in to your system in the morning. This means that the password is likely to be one of the few that must actually be memorized.
If you ask me to memorize a 32-character random string, I will, but I won't memorize a different 32-character string every 6 months!<p>[0]: <a href="https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-FAQ/#q-b05" rel="nofollow">https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-FAQ/#q-b05</a>