passwords

A huge database of leaked e-mails and passwords surfaced in the Internet. Here’s what you should do about it.

Designer Mark used the same password for all of his accounts — and lived to regret it. Here’s his story.

Case study: An analysis of insufficient safety practices at a small advertising agency.

Password-based love? Sites that ban humans? In this post, we look at five fun and slightly bizarre projects to get you thinking about security.

We asked, and your answer was yes.

How Twitter’s “not-a-leak” made me realize that remembering passwords no longer works.

Stress relating to technology and cybersecurity is an escalating issue we can’t escape.

We tend to fall into two camps with password complexity: complex but difficult to remember versus easy to remember but hackable. Is there a third option?

Simple passwords are easy to crack, complex ones hard to remember. Using one strong password for all logins isn’t safe. What’s the solution?

People put a lot of time, effort, and money into the online games they love. And yet many of them don’t bother to protect their gaming accounts properly.

Hello friend. Do you know how to protect yourself?

Password management is one of the most essential and yet probably the most annoying of security measures. Short passwords are easy to remember, but they’re insecure; long and strong passwords

We keep talking (and talking, and talking) about passwords. Having strong passwords for all accounts is really a must: Our recent study shows that one in five users has experienced attempts to hack their accounts —

Do you have any idea of how many online services you actually use or sites and forums that you visit? If you were to track and count, the sheer number

Perhaps the most striking point about last week’s huge DDoS attack, which took down more than 80 big websites and online services, is that the criminals behind the attack accomplished

In the beginning, the Internet was not terrifically user friendly — early users needed tech chops just to get online, and they had to do so over a wired, dial-up

Being a parent is tough in the digital age. The bullies and predators you have to worry about have expanded beyond physical threats to ones that lurk around every corner

Has the shock and awe of Yahoo’s 500 million user credential hack died down yet? Everyone breathing a bit easier? Passwords changed, dead accounts deleted? For those of you chuckling

Yahoo is expected to announce a “massive” data breach ahead of its impending sale to Verizon. Although the news is not yet confirmed at the time of this posting (several

Everyone likes Twitter. Well, okay, maybe not everyone, but at least 310 million users visit the microblogging platform monthly. And now these 310 million have to consider changing their Twitter

Like the invention of the fire pit, the history of the first password is lost to the depths of time. We know that Romans used them. Shakespeare mentioned passwords in