It seems like every week, someone reaches out to me about passwords. And it's no wonder – with the constant threat of hacking and data breaches, creating and remembering strong, unique passwords for ...

Several readers of late have noticed that after entering an eight-character password in Mac OS X (for an installer, or other activities), any extra characters typed will be ignored. This effectively ...

Nowadays, passwords are needed for just about everything, whether it’s online shopping, reading the news, or just scrolling ...

Creating a strong, secure password is a skill that seems to elude many people in Britain, with the most common password in the country still being admin, followed by 123456. Many sites now force users ...

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Brute-force hacking can crack an eight-character password in less than one hour, according to Hive Systems. In a new research published today, the security risk services firm says any password with ...

Picking the perfect password comes down to a battle between two competing priorities: creating safe passwords that are lengthy and unique, and creating ones you can ...

New cybersecurity breaches seem to be an almost weekly occurrence lately and more than 14 million Americans a year become victims of identity theft, according to the latest estimates. Yet consumers ...

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When engineer Bill Burr from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wrote in 2003 what would soon become the world’s gold standard for password security, he advised people and ...

Bank accounts, social media profiles, streaming platforms and even smart refrigerators require passwords these days. Keeping track of a laundry list of passwords can ...

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