Your e-mail password is your last line of defense when it comes to online privacy and security. A hacker cracks that could reset the passwords of (and gain access to ...

The days of using your first child’s name and birth date for all your passwords are long gone. That’s just too easy to crack, security experts say. Instead, we were told to use assortments of words ...

Passwords sit somewhere between the daily annoyance and necessary evil of the digital age. Once upon a time, most of us had that single, easy-to-remember six-digit ...

A password manager is a program that stores passwords and logins for various sites and apps, and that generates new strong passwords when a user needs to change an old one or create a new account.

Using a password manager is one of the top safety practices recommended by security experts. Yet only 39 percent of consumers use one, according to a recent Consumer Reports survey. Instead, many ...

The first Thursday of May is World Password Day, a day to remind ourselves of the importance of making our digital lives more secure. For better or worse, just about everything we do is connected, ...

For easy login to frequently-used websites or apps, many of us choose to save our credentials in a browser or app’s password manager. Once you change your NetID password, it does not automatically ...