Create stronger, more secure passwords: We are nagged to do it all the time, but few of us actually make the effort. Meanwhile, passwords continue to be stolen, leaked, and cracked on a regular basis.

We’re all familiar with what a password is: a string of characters used to confirm your identity when logging on to a ...

Long story short, I'm logged into this website in IE right now, with a username and password that were given to me, but I was dumb. See, I got them via AIM, used them, and closed the IM window, so I ...

Repeated prompts to enter your Git username and password are a frustrating annoyance developers can live without. Unfortunately, if your Git installation has not been configured to use a credential ...

It doesn’t take a cryptologist to figure out that “123” isn’t exactly the hardest password to crack. Yet millions of people still use countless variations of it to lock up their digital-dependent ...

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An eight-character-long password made of numbers can be cracked instantly, according to the IT firm Hive Systems. Every year, the company releases its password table, which displays the time needed to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Observing, pondering, and writing about tech. Generally in that order. The Equifax breach that leaked data on 143 million ...

If your username and/or password has been forgotten or misplaced, you can click on “Forgot Username” or “Forgot Password” on the log in screen. It will ask for the email address you used when you ...