Indeed, over the last few years numerous major corporations and organisations - LinkedIn, Sony, the US government, Evernote, Twitter, Yahoo and many others - have had their systems compromised to different degrees.

“Proposing an effective replacement of conventional passwords could reduce 76 percent of data breaches, based on an analysis of more than 47,000 reported security incidents,” stressed Al-Salloum.

The geographical password system utilises the geographical information derived from a specific memorable location around which the user has logged a drawn boundary - longitude, latitude, altitude, area of the boundary, its perimeter, sides, angles, radius and other features form the geographical password.

Once created, the password is then “salted” by adding a string of hidden random characters that are user-specific and the geographical password and the salt “hashed” together.

Thus, even if two users pick the same place as their geographical password the behind-the-scenes password settings is unique to them.

If the system disallowed two users from picking the same location, this would make it much easier for adversaries to guess passwords.

The research was published in the International Journal of Security and Networks.

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