You can auto-change passwords in LastPass to have the service generate obscure passwords for your accounts.

If there's one piece of advice I can give, it's never to store passwords in a browser. The browser already has so much information about you, and adding passwords helps complete every piece of the ...

Many of us know this, or at least it's something that's in the backs of our minds as we post updates to Facebook, share photos on Instagram, detail little insights into our daily lives on Twitter, and ...

I write a column every few years about the dangers of using simple passwords that are easy for hackers to guess. And every time my research finds that the most common passwords people employ are ...

I’m so bad at remembering them that even Google doesn’t trust me anymore. Due to my status as a “forgot your password?” power-user, my last fail resulted in a two-to-five-day lockout as they launched ...

A keychain password is the master password for your Mac's "Keychain Access" app, which stores your usernames and passwords.

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I could use a big DB of MD5 hashes and passwords, just to show how useless MD5 is*. Where I work all our systems use MD5 and DES for "encryption" (whoever wrote the code -- dozens of people -- didn't ...

Myspace may be so 2006, but something that happened three years ago may be coming back to haunt hundreds of millions of users now. That's because the formerly popular social media site was hacked, not ...

Data breaches are no longer rare events but a persistent problem. We’ve been seeing regular incidents at public-facing companies across various sectors, including healthcare, retail and finance. While ...

No one lives forever, so it's important to plan what happens to your passwords after you're gone. These top-rated password ...