Quiz: Digital life 20 years ago

How well do you remember digital life in the ’90s? Can you score 13 out of 13 on our quiz?

Kaspersky Lab is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. For a tech company, that’s quite an advanced age. The digital world has changed beyond recognition since 1997.

On this occasion, we’re reliving a bit of the past and thinking back to what life was like 20 years ago. Do you remember it? Was the sun brighter? Was the grass greener? Did you play computer games, conspicuously use your bulky mobile phone, and venture onto the World Wide Web? What were you doing in front of your computer screen — if you had one?

See for yourself how well you remember the ’90s.

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Cracked in under a minute: (nearly) every other password

We’ve revisited our study on the crackability of real-world passwords leaked on the dark web — originally conducted two years ago. The findings are sobering: nearly every other password can be cracked in under a minute, and three out of five take less than an hour. How can we move away from insecure passwords?