Cybersecurity experts have revealed the logic behind their advice to use three random words when creating passwords. In a new blog post, experts at the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – which is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David John Marotta is a financial advisor covering financial planning. In 2022, LastPass disclosed a breach of the data in their ...

All your cybersecurity questions, answered. Especially if they involve random number generators All your cybersecurity questions, answered. Especially if they involve random number generators is ...

One of the simplest ways for a hacker to gain control of your online accounts is by getting hold of your password. Sometimes, they do this through brute force attacks — automatically checking millions ...

Bad passwords are easy to remember, but also easy to guess -- and that can give an attacker access to your online accounts. That's why the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has explained why ...

Create stronger, more secure passwords: We are nagged to do it all the time, but few of us actually make the effort. Meanwhile, passwords continue to be stolen, leaked, and cracked on a regular basis.

Password managers and passkeys are only worth using when you turn on specific features. For example, features like 2FA codes, ...

Security researchers show that Kaspersky used the current time to generate passwords prior to a 2019 update, which led to easy to crack passwords. Password generators are not always entirely random ...

Back in the day, conventional wisdom said to never store your passwords in your browsers. That’s not true anymore. Modern browsers are much more secure, tied to accounts protected by two-factor ...

Hive Systems has released the 2025 edition of its password crack time estimate table, and it's a doozy. Among many other findings, the company's researchers calculated that all random passwords around ...