By John P. Mello Jr. • E-Commerce Times • ECT News Network

12/10/14 9:31 AM PT

 

Consumers should change passwords regularly, and they should change them immediately after every significant data breach if they want to be secure. To that oft-heard advice, however, many have turned a deaf ear. They're suffering from "password fatigue," suggested Dashlane CEO Emmanuel Schalit. Dashlane and LastPass have introduced automated functionality to do the job for them.

 

 

Two password manager makers on Tuesday announced new features that allow their users to minimize the hassle of resetting passwords.

One of the first things online users are advised to do after a data breach -- and there have been more than few of those lately -- is to change their passwords. Few users act on that advice, though, because creating unique, strong passwords and manually inserting them on more than a handful of websites is too onerous.

For example, only 39 percent of users changed their passwords or terminated accounts in the wake of Heartbleed, a widely reported software vulnerability that placed millions of user passwords at risk, based on a Pew study released in April.

 

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