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[Security Nation] Jeremi Gosney on the Psychology of Password Hygiene

In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod talk to renowned password security expert Jeremi Gosney about how we are all guilty of bad password practices. He discusses the psychology of how we develop the various words/phrase combinations that become our crackable passwords.

Stick around for the Rapid Rundown, where Tod and Jen dive into a great story for Cybersecurity Awareness Month as well as bad data-governance practices.    

Jeremi Gosney

[Security Nation] Jeremi Gosney on the Psychology of Password Hygiene

Jeremi Gosney is a renowned password cracker and password security expert. He is a member of the Hashcat core development team, the former CEO of the password cracking firm Terahash, and the author of the Pufferfish and hmac-bcrypt password hashing functions. He also helps run the DEF CON Password Village and the PasswordsCon track at Security BSides Las Vegas.

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from Rapid7 Blog https://blog.rapid7.com/2022/10/26/security-nation-jeremi-gosney-on-the-psychology-of-password-hygiene/

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