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Good morning, PR pros:
Italian Fineco Bank recently was recently criticized by several cybersecurity experts for its customer password policies and instructions. They include advising customers to Google their passwords to ensure it’s unique and offering a few secure passwords (which are probably unsecure now):
A well known online bank in Italy, @FinecoLive, is:
a) limiting the max password length to 8 chars (a red flag as hashes have consistent length)
b) suggesting you should google your password to ensure it's unique
🤦♀️🤦♂️@troyhunt we need you 🆘
(Thanks @gvarisco and @Clodo76) pic.twitter.com/Q1sYXQwk4A
— Giorgio Bonfiglio 🇺🇦 (@g_bonfiglio) November 12, 2019
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