You can test the security of your passwords by using a password-strength checker on an online password-security program. For the purposes of this article, we'll walk ...

In general, any account that you have with a weak password could be at risk of being hacked. To eliminate concern, there are free password-strength-checking tools available online. Nicole Cozma has an ...

A good password can mean the difference between identity safety and identity theft. Unfortunately, too many otherwise intelligent people rely on ridiculously weak passwords, the kind that make hackers ...

The company plans to add a hacked-password alert system into its browser by the end of year; Firefox aims to do much the same thing this month. Google has launched a web-based hacked-password checker, ...

Our mission for this week's Community Byte was to create a Python program to crack web-based passwords, like the ones you would see on an email or router login. I wanted it to be universal in the ...

An educational website that bills itself as the UK's top source for "unbiased, factual and easy-to-understand information on online safety" isn't living up to its promise. Not only is the password ...

Either you’re terrible at passwords, or the two people on either side of you are. That’s one of a few unsettling takeaways from a new security survey Google has commissioned in advance of a major ...

With how much our lives have moved online, data breaches are one of the most significant threats to our personal information and create the potential for identity theft. Thankfully, you can check for ...