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After years of warning users about making sure their passwords aren’t easy to guess or left on Post-It notes stuck to their monitors, it seems the message still hasn’t gotten through.

A new survey by Sophos, Inc., an anti-virus and anti-spam company with U.S. headquarters in Lynnfield, Mass., shows that users — and many IT professionals themselves — aren’t using passwords properly, putting their computers and the company network at risk.

”It shows that there’s still a lack of education,” says Carol Theriault, a senior security consultant for Sophos. ”Of course, people need to be thinking about firewalls and anti-virus, but they need to think about passwords, too. With so many websites asking people for passwords now, everything thinks they can’t remember them all. They just use the same one. And then there are the people who think their password is so good, so tricky that no one will figure it out. And that’s just not the case.’ Users and IT Lax about Password Security

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