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Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. Many of us are guilty of a cardinal cybersecurity sin: We reuse old passwords. In a 2025 survey of 2,300 adults, more than half of respondents said they recycled an existing password when updating accounts with companies that have disclosed data breaches.But Apple wants to fix this bad habit by flagging and automatically updating compromised or weak passwords you\u2019re using on websites and apps through its new Passwords app feature. The update was\u00a0announced at the tech giant\u2019s June developers conference.Apple is automating the process of updating update weak, old passwords in its upcoming iOS27 software release. Illustration: HuffPost; Photos: AppleLike this article? Keep independent journalism alive. Support HuffPost.Following the release, you don\u2019t have to manually update each password \u2015 Apple can do it for you automatically for eligible accounts. You won\u2019t need to sign into each individual app and waste time to do this.In the developer demo shown at the conference, the iPhone showed a \u201cFix Passwords\u201d button at the top that a user needed to tap to change multiple passwords in listed apps at once. Then Apple said it would use its artificial intelligence and Safari to update the password in the background, and let you know through an update that will state \u201cSecurity upgraded.\u201dTech: If You Have This iPhone Model, You Will No Longer Be Able To Run 1 Critical Update \u2014 And That\u2019s A Big ProblemThe Passwords app will do this through Apple\u2019s processing system for artificial intelligence known as\u00a0Private Cloud Compute, which says it will not retain any of your data, including via logging or for debugging.The final version of this feature will not be released until the fall iOS 27 software update, but you can try the iOS 27 developer beta right now.Bill Budington, a senior staff technologist for nonprofit digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, said he is \u201ccautiously optimistic\u201d about this feature. \u201cI would want to see how it\u2019s implemented, and also what it looks like when it comes out,\u201d he said.And it\u2019s not the only way you can protect your data in an app in the meantime. \u201cWe know the secure way to generate passwords. Those are built into password managers already,\u201d Budington noted.Finds: Do You Need A Password Manager? Here\u2019s What It Does \u2014 And The One You Should GetThese password managers generate unique, random-looking passwords for new accounts, and store them all for you without having to remember each one. It\u2019s also unclear yet how the new Apple feature will integrate with third-party password apps people already use.And then there\u2019s the larger question of trusting Apple\u2019s AI to decide which passwords need an upgrade and what a strong password looks like.Apple defines a weak password as one that is \u201ceasily guessed or used multiple times,\u201d but it remains to be seen how well it is at deciding what\u2019s a weak or strong password. When AI creates a password, it\u2019s not always the strong safeguard it\u2019s supposed to be. In one PCMag test, Google Gemini generated weak passwords even when it was prompted to create strong ones.But overall, this could be an important step forward for people who use the same password on every app. \u201cIf you have the same password on five different sites, and even one of them implements bad security … then all five sites are vulnerable to attacks using those credentials,\u201d Budington explained about why reusing passwords is so insecure.\u201cIf people are using this because they were not using anything else before, I think that\u2019s definitely a huge improvement,\u201d he said.Related…Read the original on HuffPost
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