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 ...

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

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 ...

A new research reveals that even passwords containing 15 characters can be easily compromised by the hackers. Towfiqu barbhuiya from Unsplash Longer passwords do not equate to guaranteed safety and ...

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

In a weekend news story on the CNN portal, reporter John D Sutter says that the Georgia Institute recommends that internet users should consider that a 12-character password is now the minimum. If ...

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 ...

An overdue safety upgrade after a major security meltdown. An overdue safety upgrade after a major security meltdown. is a senior reviewer with over a decade of experience writing about consumer tech.

Anyone that thinks a 30 character password is any safer than a 16, or even 12 character password is ignorant at best. No one is going to brute force a proper 12 digit password in our lifetimes, ...

We've talked before about using a longer passcode on your iPhone instead of a 4-digit pin, but as the tech blog Digital Inspiration points out, adding in accented characters adds yet another level of ...