Your online password should exceed eight characters so you can avoid the potential hacking incidents from the hackers, according to the latest research. If your ...

Does Size Really Matter? Here's Why Password Length Isn't Everything ...

Over the course of the past year, security researchers at Specops Software examined six billion leaked passwords and ...

We have been conditioned to think that good cyber hygiene means creating new, strong, and unique passwords every few months. Not so fast!

Several readers of late have noticed that after entering an eight-character password in Mac OS X (for an installer, or other activities), any extra characters typed will be ignored. This effectively ...

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There is a reason why most services ask for a specific number of characters for passwords, and even specific types of characters. If you’ve ever wondered why, well, a cybersecurity firm, Hive Systems, ...

LastPass notified customers today that they are now required to use complex master passwords with a minimum of 12 characters to increase their accounts' security ...