Having a strong password is very important. If someone steals your passwords, they can use your name to open new credit card accounts, apply for a mortgage, or pose ...

After imbibing large quantities of certain beverages, we Ars writers sometimes get carried away with telling each other true-life stories that probably shouldn't go anywhere but sometimes do. Last ...

The automatic secure password generation feature of Google Chrome can be extremely useful when you have to create online accounts and want to have strong random passwords for them. Google Chrome's ...

The U.S. government recently revamped its password recommendations, abandoning its endorsement of picking a favorite phrase and replacing a couple characters with symbols, like c4tlo^eR. These short, ...

As you may know, Siri is backed by the seriously amazing knowledge web site, Wolfram Alpha, which makes dynamic computations about your search terms based on a its own collection of built-in data, ...

Creating and keeping track of the passwords that secure our online life is one of the defining problems of the internet age. Each year hundreds of millions of user accounts are hacked, thanks to ...

One of the best ways to protect your online and internal accounts is to devise unique and complex passwords. A password manager is your best bet for doing this. But if you don’t have a password ...

How To Form and Remember Good Passwords: Too often, you are expected to create utterly random, complicated passwords with special characters and lots of restrictions. The net result is ALWAYS a ...

Mozilla is adding a random password generator to Firefox. Google added one to Chrome and Chromium-based browsers in the fall of 2018, with the release of Chrome/Chromium v69. The Firefox random ...

How do you balance the necessity of highly secure passwords with the utility of easily recalling them all? The only secure password is one that you can't remember, but there are times when you can't ...