But according to Mark Stockley at Naked Security, password strength meters have pretty much stayed the same. Last March, Stockley tested five popular password strength meters and they all failed.

If you’ve ever made an online account, then you’ve come across a password strength meter—that little thing that encourages you to add a little more complexity to your credentials. And, if ...

According to a series of tests, a number of password security meters fail to identify passwords that are susceptible to cracking.

Website password strength meters, like a spouse asked to assess your haircut or outfit, often tell you only what you want to hear. That’s the finding from researchers at Concordia University in ...

Research on password strength testers concludes that for important accounts, strength meters force users to create strong passwords; not so for unimportant.

Specifically, researchers at Concordia University in Montreal found that the same password will often yield inconsistent results across varying password strength meters on different websites.

New research exposes the weakness of password strength meters, and shows consumers should remain skeptical when the bar turns green in order to create strong passwords.

The Password Meter web utility tests the strength of your passwords as you type them, scoring your password strength based on a number of positive and negative password attributes.

The password meters presented to the test subjects used "zero-order entropy," a technique many meters use to measure password strength.

But how do you know if your password is strong enough? Head to The Password Meter, a free service that rates the strength of your password based on a number of criteria.