What Is Cybersecurity: How Attacks Work and How to Stay Safe

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1. 12 July 2026 · corrected by Melik Can Sariyer

   NIST's removal of mandatory periodic password changes and complexity rules dates to SP 800-63B (2017), not 2024.

   What the page claimed

   Article body: 'Digital Identity Guidelines (Special Publication 800-63B) significantly in 2024' (already fixed to 2017 in body). FAQ answer to 'What does NIST now recommend for passwords?' still read: "NIST's 2024 Digital Identity Guidelines (SP 800-63B) significantly revised previous password guidance."

   What was corrected

   Body confirmed correct: 'Digital Identity Guidelines (Special Publication 800-63B) significantly in 2017'. FAQ answer corrected to: "NIST's 2017 Digital Identity Guidelines (SP 800-63B) significantly revised previous password guidance."

   Why: The article body already correctly stated NIST's SP 800-63B guidance was updated in 2017, but the FAQ JSON-LD field still contained the unverified 'NIST's 2024 Digital Identity Guidelines' date. Fixed the FAQ answer, re-encoded using its exact base64/JSON operation sequence, and verified via re-fetch that '2024' no longer appears anywhere in the post and the FAQ array still decodes correctly with '2017' present.

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