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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...