Passwords are one of the most important aspects of computing. They keep our bank accounts, user profiles and computers safe (as long as we don’t reuse passwords). Just to log into our computers, most ...

Choosing new and remembering old passwords is a frustration familiar to anyone with a computer, but password managers make ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Microsoft announced a sweeping update that will affect more than a billion users. Starting in April, Microsoft will begin rolling out a new sign-in and account creation experience ...

This post explains how to find your computer’s username and password in Windows 11. Usernames and passwords are assigned to users when they first set up their Windows account. They are the unique ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Microsoft is on a mission to delete passwords for a billion users, ...

Ben Khalesi covers the intersection of artificial intelligence and everyday tech at Android Police. With a background in AI and data science, he enjoys making technical topics approachable for those ...

Nefarious hackers have figured out many ways to circumvent 2FA restrictions and harvest passwords with sophisticated phishing traps. Many of these bad actors, however, will soon be looking for new ...

More than half of passwords exposed in data breaches this year were not new compromises at all, but recycled credentials that had already surfaced in earlier leaks, according to fresh research from ...

Kerberoasting attacks remain an enduring headache for IT professionals, allowing hackers to escalate privileges and reach the highest levels of your Active Directory (AD) environment. But by enforcing ...

From the department of head scratches comes this counterintuitive news: Microsoft says it has no plans to change a remote login protocol in Windows that allows people to log in to machines using ...

People trust password managers, and when that trust isn’t upheld, it can prove costly — as LastPass has just discovered.