Spiderman is already a hacker favourite, used in a phishing attack framework that’s hired out to cybercriminals. However, it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We've long been told to craft long, hard-to-guess passwords for our online accounts, but lengthy codes are not enough to protect your data, according to new research That’s not to say you should ...

RICHMOND, Va. – In its most recent research in password security, Hive Systems found that any 8-character password can be cracked in less than an hour through brute force. Further, any password ...

Every year the private digital security company NordPass publishes a list of the most popular passwords across 30 countries. And as always, the current list from 2022 also contains shockingly simple ...

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 ...

We've talked before about using a longer passcode on your iPhone instead of a 4-digit pin, but as the tech blog Digital Inspiration points out, adding in accented characters adds yet another level of ...

If your login is 000000, it may be time for a reset. One Reddit user shared a comprehensive and color-coded chart to illustrate how much time it could take a hacker to figure out your password. The ...