Your online password should exceed eight characters so you can avoid the potential hacking incidents from the hackers, according to the latest research. If your ...

We've all been there. You're trying to create a password for a new account that meets the numerous parameters of a strong ...

I was trying to connect one of my finance sites to a mint.com-like service. It was failing. I got an email from support saying that, "` (back quote on the ~ key), \ , < , or > ? Note that most ...

Several readers of late have noticed that after entering an eight-character password in Mac OS X (for an installer, or other activities), any extra characters typed will be ignored. This effectively ...

LastPass notified customers today that they are now required to use complex master passwords with a minimum of 12 characters to increase their accounts' security ...

Password-manager purveyor LastPass has announced it's setting new rules about the strength of customer passwords, with a new mandate that account master passwords include a minimum of 12 characters. A ...

For every age bracket, “12345” and “123456” are always on top, but older generations are more likely to use names in their passwords. On the other hand, Generations Y and Z most often combine ...

"Admin" was the most-commonly used password in the U.S. between September 2024 and September 2025, NordPass found.

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 ...

I'm not sure how secret this policy is when Windows Live had a 16 character limit since inception in 2005. Per the help document; Contains seven to sixteen characters. Uses three of the following four ...

The right AI program can breach 51% of all common passwords within less than a minute, a new report has found. Given an hour, AI can figure out 65% of common passwords. The key takeaway: Passwords ...