The reason that passwords are easy to break, crack and hack has always been because of the people that come up with them.

Passwords could soon become passé. Effective passwords are cumbersome, all the more so when reinforced by two-factor authentication. But the need for authentication and secure access to websites is as ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — How safe is your password? How long would it take a computer to crack it and get all your information? Check out this graphic from Statista. It shows the number of characters in a ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — Carmen Fuentes sat down with Karen Reeves, the President and CEO of the Better Business Bureau, to find out ways you can keep your information safe by following these easy ...

Yep, everyone knows you’d rather use your first name and the year you were born for your password – even hackers. And because of technological advancements, hackers can jailbreak a password like ...

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 ...

Passwords sit somewhere between the daily annoyance and necessary evil of the digital age. Once upon a time, most of us had that single, easy-to-remember six-digit password that we used for every site ...

Passwords can be difficult to manage. They have to be long and complex enough that hackers can’t guess them through brute force, and you need to have a unique password for every single account so that ...

Look, if you were to ask me about using smiley faces as passwords in 2025 I would, quite frankly, say you were suffering from some kind of security breakdown. I mean, if you don’t want to use a ...

The safest way to secure your data on Windows is by keeping it in encrypted vaults. You can create hidden, password-protected ...

One of the biggest stories of the year was the leak of 16 billion passwords — credentials now being used in ongoing hack attacks. Why you must act, and act now.

Dhruv Bhutani has been writing about consumer technology since 2008, offering deep insights into the Android smartphone landscape through features and opinion pieces. He joined Android Police in 2023, ...