Passwords are often perceived as a formality: added a digit, put an exclamation mark – and the job is done. But this approach is based on rules from ten years ago, when there were far fewer services, and computing power for attacks was much more modest. Today each of us has dozens of accounts: from email and banks to work panels for domain management or cloud storage. A weak or repeated password in such an ecosystem creates a domino effect: once one site is hacked, everything is put at risk.
