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• Media continue to pick up stories about a Concordia study that found online password meters to be largely unreliable. Mohammad Mannan, assistant professor in the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE) and Xavier de Carné de Carnavalet, doctoral candidate in the CIISE, reached their conclusion after rating the password strength meters of several high-traffic web service providers. Their work is reported by CIO,  DataNews, Automatiseringgids (in Dutch),ComputerWorld (in Danish) and in a technology newsbrief in La Presse +.
• An article in Independent.ie about stress management mentions a 2013 study from Concordia which found that optimists were better managers of stress. The study was co-authored by Carsten Wrosch, psychology professor and member of the Centre for Research on Human Development, and PhD candidate Joelle Jobin.
• Le Devoir writes about the work on computer security of Mourad Debbabi, professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering. It mentions the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance CANADA, based at Concordia. It includes an on-camera interview with Debbabi.

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