Length does matter (ha), but how you create and manage a password often matters just as much, if not more. A long password that's predictable or reused across accounts can still be cracked, leaked or ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. An overdue safety upgrade after a major security meltdown. An overdue safety upgrade after a major security ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anyone that thinks a 30 character password is any safer than a 16, or even 12 character password is ignorant at best. No one is going to brute force a proper 12 digit password in our lifetimes, ...