'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 ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — Creating strong passwords is tough. Remembering them? Even tougher. But with a little creativity and your favorite songs or movies, you can build passwords that ...

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 ...

Outsource your password management or keep it in-house manually. Either way, it doesn’t have to be rocket science. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: you should use a different password for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released updated password guidelines that might surprise you in that they’ve made the dark art of keeping yourself secure slightly ...

A report from NordPass examining the one thousand most visited global websites online today, found most platforms still allow ...

I heard from a lot of readers when I asked people to share how they remember and store their passwords. I wrote about my mom’s method of writing down her important passwords. In fact, she treated ...

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