In addition to choosing a complex password, you should opt for double authentication whenever possible, ie, go through an additional validation stage, often by text message, email message or via a ...

iChat AIM passwords cannot be longer than 16 characters MacFixIt reader Jonathan reports that AOL Instant Messenger passwords cannot be longer than 16 letters, despite iChat's acceptance of passwords ...

A password expert has shown that passwords can be cracked by brute force four times faster than was previously thought possible. It's no magician's trick. Jeremi Gosney of the Stricture Consulting ...

LastPass in a blog post revealed that since April 2023, all new users and existing users who took steps to reset their master password were required to follow the 12 ...

Passwords have become the bane of modern life. All of us struggle to remember dozens of them, and our employers often force us to change them regularly. Now, thanks to a report in the Wall Street ...

I had been passing username/password strings directly into the ADO.NET connection string, however this means that if a user has a quote character in his password, it borks the ConnectionString and ...