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 ...

An overdue safety upgrade after a major security meltdown. An overdue safety upgrade after a major security meltdown. Allison Johnson is a reviewer with 10 years of experience writing about consumer ...

Here, even if you increase the number of characters, the risk of having your password hacked remains very high. For example, it will only take an hour for a hacker to find a ten-character 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 have been used for thousands of years, as a means of identifying ourselves to others and in more recent times, to computers. It is a simple concept – a shared piece of information kept ...

With regard to yesterday's item detailing Mac OS X's effective limitation of passwords to eight characters, several readers speculate that the problem may be more of a simple quirk than a true ...

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 ...

In a weekend news story on the CNN portal, reporter John D Sutter says that the Georgia Institute recommends that internet users should consider that a 12-character password is now the minimum. If ...

An nVidia GeForce GT220 graphics card, which costs about £30, is capable of cracking strong passwords in a matter of hours. Security experts at UKFast say they were able to crack a six-character ...