'Create new Password' … another password to add to the collection, it gets overwhelming. The average American has over 100 passwords on various sites and lost password problems take up as much as two ...

To create a truly strong password, you should use a mix of upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols. Creating strong passwords can help protect your accounts from hackers, but no matter how ...

Cybersecurity experts have revealed the logic behind their advice to use three random words when creating passwords. In a new blog post, experts at the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – which is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Passwords are our first line of defense online, and the sad truth is most of us just aren’t very good at creating strong ones. We use the same weak passwords over and over again, despite knowing ...

INDIANAPOLIS — What’s safe today is not safe tomorrow. That’s the mindset that professor of computer and information technology at Purdue University Mustafa Abdallah has about passwords and keeping ...

In recent years the received wisdom on passwords -- that they need to be complex, lengthy, and changed frequently -- has begun to be challenged. These type of passwords are not only potentially ...

In 2003, Bill Burr (no, not that one) sat down and wrote a document that defines your life. He wasn’t a novelist, he was an engineer, and his opus was NIST Special Publication 800-63. Appendix A.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Nancy Anderson writes about retirement planning and personal finance. We all know that, but year after year, news organizations ...