Very often, you are forced to use special characters, numbers, and uppercase and lowercase letters in a password. How Are Passwords Cracked?

Burr recommended creating passwords that were essentially weird nonsense words, chock-full of special characters and occasional capital letters and numbers.

Use a Mix: Combine uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters. Avoid Common Words: Steer clear of easily guessable words and phrases. Length Matters: Aim for passwords ...

NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules Proposed guidelines aim to inject badly needed common sense into password hygiene.

I had been passing username/password strings directly into the ADO.NET connection string, however this means that if a user has a quote character in his password, it borks the ConnectionString and ...

Sick of 15-character passwords? Microsoft is going password-less, starting now. Microsoft is saying good riddance to the traditional password, and we're here for it.

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 ...

If you are having problems with network passwords (especially when connecting to Windows shares) after updating to Mac OS X 10.4.4, make sure that errant special characters aren't at fault.

Ultimately though, security is all about layering defense and passwords alone should not be relied upon. So while Google has a minimum password length of eight characters, it also "checks where ...