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 ...

I have bad news for everyone with weak passwords. A hacker can guess your laziest random passwords in the same amount of time it takes to watch a movie. It turns out when you put the most brutally ...

Several readers of late have noticed that after entering an eight-character password in Mac OS X (for an installer, or other activities), any extra characters typed will be ignored. This effectively ...

... or other absurdly short lengths? I remember that back before Chase bought them, Bank One's website has a <B>six fucking character limit</B>. My banking ...

RICHMOND, Va. – In its most recent research in password security, Hive Systems found that any 8-character password can be cracked in less than an hour through brute force. Further, any password ...

Your online password should exceed eight characters so you can avoid the potential hacking incidents from the hackers, according to the latest research. If your ...

A new research reveals that even passwords containing 15 characters can be easily compromised by the hackers. Towfiqu barbhuiya from Unsplash Longer passwords do not equate to guaranteed safety and ...

With regard to yesterday's item detailing Mac OS X's effective limitation of passwords to eight characters, several readers speculate that the problem may be more of a simple quirk than a true ...

We already know that most users’ clever passwords aren’t protecting them from hackers. It turns out that the complex password requirements most sites ask you for aren’t doing as much to help either.

To paraphrase Mark Twain, the reports of the death of the password are greatly exaggerated. Proclaiming their imminent demise is wishful thinking, for they are with us for the indefinite future.