No matter how much we read about hacks and data breaches and the importance of taking solid security precautions, one of the unchangeable truths of the world is that people on average are absolutely terrible when it comes to choosing passwords. We use the same ones over and over, to the delight of hackers, and …
In celebration of its 10-year anniversary, Google released the Chrome browser redesign we’ve been waiting for. That’s version 69, if you haven’t updated Chrome on your desktop yet, which should be available on all platforms — the mobile version has also been updated. Among the various features and improvements, there’s one concerning security. Google has …
I don’t know what I’d do without my trusted password manager. Out there, nobody is safe, so that’s why I try to secure each account with individual, hard-to-crack passwords. And I couldn’t possibly remember them all without a password manager. Like me, other people are relying on various apps to keep track of their passwords …
We’re drowning in passwords. From email accounts and Facebook to services like mobile banking and video streaming, the average Internet user today has to keep track of a seemingly endless collection of passwords. It can quickly become overwhelming, and far too many users, in an effort to keep things manageable, tend to rely upon passwords …
Creating a new password for an online account or app is an exercise in pure frustration. The increasingly complicated requirements are enough to make you pull your hair out, and just when you think you’ve nailed a decent login, you’ll probably be forced to change it in a month anyway. Now, Bill Burr, the man …
At this point, it seems like every single big-name company with a web presence has been hacked at least once, and while archives of usernames and passwords pop up and create a scare from time to time, it’s easy to forget that those lists live on forever online. Now, a security researcher has spotted an absolutely …
Passwords are annoying, clumsy, easily beaten (for the most part), and an absolutely antiquated form of security. They also happen to be the primary way we secure our most precious information today. Microsoft wants to change that with a new app feature that basically removes passwords from the equation entirely. It’s part of the Microsoft Authenticator …
Every year, security experts and internet bloggers plead with the general public to use more secure passwords for their online accounts. Every year, the public fails to heed their advice, as this list of most common passwords of 2016 reveals. After examining over 10 million passwords that became public following security breaches throughout the year, the Keeper team discovered that …
You probably think your clever little “P455W()rD” password is the highest degree of online security in the land, but a new study by the bright minds at Germany’s Hasso-Plattner Institute says otherwise. In fact, your passwords are pretty much useless, because you keep reusing them. What is the matter with you?
Every time there’s a large scale data breach, we’re reminded how little thought and creativity people use when coming up with their passwords. In in the wake of LinkedIn’s 2012 data breach, for example, we learned that hundreds of thousands of people were using “password” as their password. A good number of users were also found to …
