In addition to choosing a complex password, you should opt for double authentication whenever possible, ie, go through an additional validation stage, often by text message, email message or via a ...

iChat AIM passwords cannot be longer than 16 characters MacFixIt reader Jonathan reports that AOL Instant Messenger passwords cannot be longer than 16 letters, despite iChat's acceptance of passwords ...

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 ...

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 ...

Passwords have become the bane of modern life. All of us struggle to remember dozens of them, and our employers often force us to change them regularly. Now, thanks to a report in the Wall Street ...

The College of Arts and Sciences technology support services at Western Michigan University offers the following tips to choose a good password. Since very few systems have support for one-time tokens ...