Picking the perfect password comes down to a battle between two competing priorities: creating safe passwords that are lengthy and unique, and creating ones you can ...

People are bad at passwords. Most don’t bother with the unique, complex phrases or character strings that make a good password. Worse, they share weak passwords with others. The best password managers ...

No one can remember every unique, strong password or passkey that you need to navigate life online safely. Here's how a password manager can help. I review privacy tools like hardware security keys, ...

Attila covers software, apps and services, with a focus on virtual private networks. He's an advocate for digital privacy and has been quoted in online publications like Computer Weekly, The Guardian, ...

Passwords sit somewhere between the daily annoyance and necessary evil of the digital age. Once upon a time, most of us had that single, easy-to-remember six-digit password that we used for every site ...

Mozilla Firefox is one of the planet’s oldest and most popular web browsers. Like other browsers, like Microsoft Edge, you can use a built-in password manager to keep track of your website login ...

The days of using your first child’s name and birth date for all your passwords are long gone. That’s just too easy to crack, security experts say. Instead, we were told to use assortments of words ...

A strong password will help keep your devices secure and prevent people from using your network without you realizing it. Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a text-based ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

The first Thursday of May is World Password Day, a day to remind ourselves of the importance of making our digital lives more secure. For better or worse, just about everything we do is connected, ...