To create a truly strong password, you should use a mix of upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Nancy Anderson writes about retirement planning and personal finance. We all know that, but year after year, news organizations ...

You can test the security of your passwords by using a password-strength checker on an online password-security program.

Living in our digital world means that we have to create, use, and remember passwords. A lot of them. From banking online to mobile food delivery; digital news subscriptions to electronic health ...

An eight-character-long password made of numbers can be cracked instantly, according to the IT firm Hive Systems. Every year, the company releases its password table, which displays the time needed to ...

Hackers are constantly attempting to steal passwords, with Microsoft tracking 1,287 password attacks every second in 2022. If successful, the stolen passwords could open the door to other accounts, ...

The big picture: People are often advised to create complex passwords using random lower and uppercase letters, symbols, and numbers to prevent brute-force attacks. However, a new report suggests that ...

Change your password. Don't give me that, "Oh, I'll do it later," malarkey. Update your most important accounts now—and please, for the love of all of your files in the cloud, don't change it to ...