Stop blaming people for choosing bad passwords. It's time websites did more to help
Year after year, passwords like "123456," "qwerty" and even "password" are found to be the most popular choices and 2021 was no exception.
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Year after year, passwords like "123456," "qwerty" and even "password" are found to be the most popular choices and 2021 was no exception.
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Most of the classic New Year resolutions revolve around improving your health and lifestyle. But this year, why not consider cleaning up your passwords too?
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Microsoft wants you to ditch your password. For good, this time.
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When it comes to passwords, the challenges are endless. We must create multiple passwords to manage our many online accounts, from email to shopping sites and social media profiles. We have to safely keep track of these many ...
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Password managers are considered highly effective tools for increasing online security. A study presented at the 2019 Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security surveyed a predominately young population about their use of password ...
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Hack attempts are on the rise—as always—with ransomware the most common now, according to Microsoft.
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Passwords have been used for thousands of years, as a means of identifying ourselves to others and in more recent times, to computers. It's a simple concept—a shared piece of information, kept secret between individuals ...
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Dropbox launched a trio of new services, and one of them will remember your passwords so you don't have to.
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Have you been pwned?
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Do you hate remembering passwords? Soon, you may be able to forget them for good.
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A password is a secret word or string of characters that is used for authentication, to prove identity or gain access to a resource (Example: An access code is a type of password). The password must be kept secret from those not allowed access.
The use of passwords is known to be ancient. Sentries would challenge those wishing to enter an area or approaching it to supply a password or watchword. Sentries would only allow a person or group to pass if they knew the password. In modern times, user names and passwords are commonly used by people during a log in process that controls access to protected computer operating systems, mobile phones, cable TV decoders, automated teller machines (ATMs), etc. A typical computer user may require passwords for many purposes: logging in to computer accounts, retrieving e-mail from servers, accessing programs, databases, networks, web sites, and even reading the morning newspaper online.
Despite the name, there is no need for passwords to be actual words; indeed passwords which are not actual words may be harder to guess, a desirable property. Some passwords are formed from multiple words and may more accurately be called a passphrase. The term passcode is sometimes used when the secret information is purely numeric, such as the personal identification number (PIN) commonly used for ATM access. Passwords are generally short enough to be easily memorized and typed.
For the purposes of more compellingly authenticating the identity of one computing device to another, passwords have significant disadvantages (they may be stolen, spoofed, forgotten, etc.) over authentications systems relying on cryptographic protocols which are more difficult to circumvent.
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