Password security is of fundamental importance to business users,. Especially those seeking to avoid external threats. All too often weak passwords provide a gateway for cybercriminals. Password ...

How do you create a strong password? Easy: You mash your keyboard for a few seconds until you have a 50-character hunk of gibberish, then you copy and paste that into ...

Q: I’ve been told that my passwords should now be at least 10 characters long in order to be secure nowadays. Is that true? Passwords tend to be the only thing separating criminals and thieves from ...

Passwords are both the bane and the backbone of your online life. Facial recognition and fingerprint scanners have brought us closer to a password-less future, but we’re not there yet. Most websites ...

RICHMOND, Va. – In its most recent research in password security, Hive Systems found that any 8-character password can be cracked in less than an hour through brute force. Further, any password ...

A password expert has shown that passwords can be cracked by brute force four times faster than was previously thought possible. It's no magician's trick. Jeremi Gosney of the Stricture Consulting ...

Passwords are both the bane and the backbone of your online life. Facial recognition and fingerprint scanners have brought us closer to a passwordless future, but we’re not there yet. Most websites ...

Even with smartcards, biometrics, and other multifactor authentication solutions, everyone still uses basic name/password log-on combinations. Security experts always recommend “strong passwords.” But ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — Recent leaks at AT&T and Roku put millions of customers’ information in danger of being compromised by hackers and cybercriminals. The first line of defense you ...

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates declared the password dead. He told his audience that the password can’t meet the challenge of keeping sensitive information protected, saying “People use the same ...

The man behind the 2003 report responsible for many current password guidelines says the advice is wrong. Bill Burr, the author of an 8-page publication released by the National Institute of Standards ...