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.

As online security threats grew, so did advice on creating strong passwords. By the early 2000s, users were encouraged to create passwords with a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers ...

A massive database containing nearly 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million plain text passwords has been found online in what is shaping up to be possibly one of the largest data ...

Is there a bigger hassle than password management? Based on ample evidence showing that a majority of users opt for simplistic, easy-to-guess passwords like “123456” and, sadly, “password,” I’d say no ...

If you think only an idiot would an easy-to-guess email password like "123456," think again. In his KrebsOnSecurity blog, researcher Brian Krebs wrote that he'd obtained a database of user names ...

While Google constantly pushes passkeys for enhanced security, people are still relying on traditional passwords.