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 ...

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 ...

A passphrase is like a password but longer, more secure and easier for you to memorize. A passphrase is a sentence and includes capitalization, spaces, punctuation and at least 1 number. For example, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Expert tips for creating and remembering strong Internet passwords. Aug. 3, 2010— -- It's the Internet chore that just never seems to get easier. As we spend more of our lives online, we use more ...

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 ...

Your math is a little off. Actually completely wrong. The number of passwords of length N from an alphabet of A characters is A to the power of N, (A^N) so the key ...

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