UPDATE FROM AUTHOR: As noted by several commenters this post focuses on brute force; I will discuss the rainbow table issue at length in next month's column. About a month ago, I was walking through ...

Earlier this year, thieves exploited a weakness in SS7, a telephony routing protocol, to steal passwords to online bank accounts in Germany. The attackers were able to access two-factor authenticated ...

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 ...

One of the security recommendations we give frequently is to have strong, unique passwords for each of your online accounts and a new table of password data from the cybersecurity firm Hive Systems ...

Passwords are not always the best security measures in today's webscape. They're difficult to create and manage, and all too easy to compromise. This is because most passwords follow predictable ...

CompariTech on Thursday released a report detailing the most-used passwords of 2025, which reveals that "123456" is the worst password of the year. More than 7.61 million accounts out of 2 billion ...

Passwords are more than a necessary inconvenience to access hosts, files, and applications. Instead, they assist with security for accounts and information. Many people, unfortunately, choose weak ...

We've known for decades that humans have a limited ability to associate passwords with specific accounts, and compensate by using what might be termed worst practices. A new survey of IT users at a ...

People tend to use passwords to protect their Excel files for numerous reasons. For example, if you are having sensitive data with regards to your business in an Excel file, you need to password ...