Random Password Generator is a useful utility for creating custom passwords to meet different specifications, either individually or in bulk. And because random passwords are generally harder to ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

Nowadays, it has become a challenge to safeguard your digital privacy. There are numerous malware and spying agencies that want to spy on you all the time. Moreover, the attackers try to compromise ...

Phil Lieberman definitely knows how to make lemonade. Back in the 1980s, he and his organization, Lieberman Software saw that a brand new graphical user interface was going to take the consumer and ...

Windows/Linux: Command-line utility PWGen generates random, meaningless passwords but uses letter and number combinations that can be pronounced and memorized. Simply typing "pwgen" and hitting Enter ...

After imbibing large quantities of certain beverages, we Ars writers sometimes get carried away with telling each other true-life stories that probably shouldn't go anywhere but sometimes do. Last ...

Mozilla is adding a random password generator to Firefox. Google added one to Chrome and Chromium-based browsers in the fall of 2018, with the release of Chrome/Chromium v69. The Firefox random ...

Cybersecurity researchers have found a weakness in the Kaspersky Password Manager platform which created cryptographically weak passwords that could be brute forced. Ledger Donjon, the security ...

You know the drill. Don’t use simple passwords like your birthday or your pet iguana’s name. Don’t use the same password everywhere. Instead, create a long ...