The most famous museum in the world used an incredibly insecure password to protect its video surveillance system. Here's how ...

Every year the private digital security company NordPass publishes a list of the most popular passwords across 30 countries. And as always, the current list from 2022 also contains shockingly simple ...

In addition to choosing a complex password, you should opt for double authentication whenever possible, ie, go through an additional validation stage, often by text message, email message or via a ...

On April 21, 2023, ActiveTK. tweeted 'The strongest password in 16 characters or less,' which has garnered 12,000 retweets and 70,000 likes at the time of writing. We asked an engineer whether this ...

A password expert has shown that passwords can be cracked by brute force four times faster than was previously thought possible. It's no magician's trick. Jeremi Gosney of the Stricture Consulting ...

Picking the perfect password comes down to a battle between two competing priorities: creating safe passwords that are lengthy and unique, and creating ones you can ...

I had been passing username/password strings directly into the ADO.NET connection string, however this means that if a user has a quote character in his password, it borks the ConnectionString and ...