Your online password should exceed eight characters so you can avoid the potential hacking incidents from the hackers, according to the latest research. If your ...

The average Internet user regularly visits 25 different password-protected sites but uses only six different passwords. Of Internet users, 73 percent use the same password across multiple sites, 33 ...

We all assume hackers won't crack our own passwords, even if they're simple ones with only a few characters. But just how easy is it for someone to break into an online login? According to new ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. An overdue safety upgrade after a major security meltdown. An overdue safety upgrade after a major security ...

To paraphrase Mark Twain, the reports of the death of the password are greatly exaggerated. Proclaiming their imminent demise is wishful thinking, for they are with us for the indefinite future.

Passwords and passphrases help prevent unauthorized people from accessing files, programs, and other resources. When you create a password or passphrase, you should make it strong, which means it’s ...

LastPass notified customers today that they are now required to use complex master passwords with a minimum of 12 characters to increase their accounts' security ...

Few Internet frustrations are so familiar as the password restriction. After creating a few (dozen) logins for all our Web presences, the use of symbols, mixed cases, and numbers seems less like a ...

If there’s one thing people associate with modern technology, it’s passwords. They’re everywhere, and most of us use them for dozens of things every day. Yet most people are shockingly indifferent ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Nancy Anderson writes about retirement planning and personal finance. We all know that, but year after year, news organizations ...

I didn’t intend to discuss passwords again this week, but a unique opportunity presented itself. A major phishing attack occurred at MySpace, and I got over 34,000 real passwords to analyze for ...