UOIT Assistant Professors discuss password safety with local media

In the wake of the recent Heartbleed virus, which caused a number of websites to shut down due to password security risks, two University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) faculty members recently discussed their study on password safety with Metroland Media.

In an article entitled UOIT researchers crack down on password security in wake of Heartbleed, Dr. Julie Thorpe, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business and Information Technology (FBIT) and Dr. Christopher Collins, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science (FSci) and Canada Research Chair in Linguistic Information Visualization at UOIT, along with Computer Science PhD student Rafael Veras Guimarães, talked about the secret language of passwords, and how the meaning of passwords relates to security risks. They also mentioned the brand-new project they have launched to try and help people create stronger passwords.

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