CONNECT’s Hazel Murray and Prof. David Malone at Maynooth University write about why password rules and restrictions don’t work in this article for RTÉ Brainstorm.
Hazel Murray, a CONNECT PhD researcher at Maynooth University, recently successfully defended her PhD thesis “Improving Authentication for Users via Better Understanding of Password Use and Abuse”.
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