Some Web sites only allow alphanumeric characters (letters and numbers) in their passwords. This invites bad passwords, lowering security for everyone. Jonathan Eunice, co-founder and principal IT ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LastPass in a blog post revealed that since April 2023, all new users and existing users who took steps to reset their master password were required to follow the 12-character limit. However, this ...

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 ...

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 ...