Fortunately, there are simple ways to make passwords both hard-to-guess and easy-to-remember. Unfortunately, the technology industry sometimes gets in the way of using them. Here’s a rundown of ...

Learn why strong, secure paswords matter by seeing how easy it is to crack passwords with a common tool. Longer, more complex passwords are best, and you'll see why.

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 ...

What are the worst passwords? NordPass just released its list of the 200 worst passwords of 2020 that could expose your personal data to hackers.

An eight-character-long password made of numbers can be cracked instantly, according to the IT firm Hive Systems. View on euronews ...

In March, readers followed along as Nate Anderson, Ars Technica deputy editor and a self-admitted newbie to password cracking, downloaded a list of more than 16,000 cryptographically hashed ...

NordPass has published a list of the 200 worst passwords in 2020 The password “123456” is used by 2,543,285 people and cracked 23,597,311 times NordPass recommends using more than 12 ...

The full list is 200 entries long and mostly what you would expect—incredibly dumb passwords, most of which can be cracked in less than a second, according to NordPass.