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Worst passwords. Memory exercise.

Concordia in the news
Posted on January 20, 2016

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  • An article in Forbes highlighting the worst online passwords of 2015 describes a Concordia study of online password meters, which were found to be highly inconsistent. The 2015 study was led by Mohammad Mannan, assistant professor in the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE) and Xavier de Carné de Carnavalet, doctoral candidate in the CIISE.
  • There is new coverage of a study led by Caroline Fitzpatrick, a researcher at Concordia's PERFORM Centre and psychology professor at Université Sainte-Anne in Nova Scotia, and Linda Pagani of Université de Montréal, describing how playing memory games with toddlers can help keep them in school at a later age: an article on CTVnews.ca; an interview with Fitzpatrick on Radio Canada Alberta's 'Le café show'.