Oct. 24—EL PASO — For Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the FBI is encouraging the public to strengthen their passwords/phrases and account protection. Passwords are used for everything; we use them for ...

Complicated passwords might soon give way to simplicity. A growing body of research — including recent studies out of Carnegie Melon University –shows simpler but longer passwords known as ...

For more than a decade now, security experts have had discussions about what's the best way of choosing passwords for online accounts. There's one camp that argues for password complexity by adding ...

IT’S GETTING EASIER to secure your digital privacy. iPhones now encrypt a great deal of personal information; hard drives on Mac and Windows 8.1 computers are now automatically locked down; even ...

Users often create weak and easily guessed passwords they reuse across systems and websites. As a result, traditional passwords are often the weakest link in the security of business-critical ...

On June 15, CWRU changed user login requirements to promote stronger security and improved usability. This change will require users to convert passwords associated ...

Passwords that contain multiple words aren’t as resistant as some researchers expected to certain types of cracking attacks, mainly because users frequently pick phrases that occur regularly in ...

How hard is it to crack a computer passphrase of 12 characters or more? Mathematically speaking, 67 million years, using sophisticated hardware, compared with 300 days to crack an eight-character ...

NIST’s relatively new password recommendations, which includes not using long and complex passwords that are frequently changed, are turning the computer security world on its head. Many security ...

What we call a password doesn't have to be a word at all. A whole phrase or sentence—a passphrase—offers more security. We explain how and why you should them. When the IBM PC was new, I served as the ...