6 Essentials for Developers to Enhance Password Security

Solving the weak password challenge requires more than having consumers create strong passwords. Many businesses also need to get a clue about what counts as safe, weak, encrypted, or secure. Does one of the world's largest grocery chains have a clue when it comes to online password security?

That's one obvious question after London-based Web developer Dan Blows tweeted his discovery that grocery and merchandising retailer Tesco--based on its revenue, the fourth-largest retailer in the world--"stores their website passwords unsalted, and emails them unencrypted."

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