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Many security pros now advise against frequent password changes

For years most online security pros recommended changing your passwords on a regular basis.

What’s more, many companies’ IT departments actually force the company’s employees to change their passwords at regular intervals.

But recent research into password security has caused many of those security pros to change their minds about frequent password changes.

Why? Because frequent password changes virtually force users to choose shorter, and therefore less secure passwords.

After all, it isn’t easy to come up with multiple unique passwords on a regular basis and then commit them to memory.

The recommended approach these days is to …