We all use passwords. We use them for our phones, our computers, our e-mail, and just about every other kind of personal account. Unfortunately, many of us use simple passwords, such as “Password1” or ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released updated password guidelines that might surprise you in that they’ve made the dark art of keeping yourself secure slightly ...

Our company has aked us to change the minimum password length on our domain from 8 characters to 12 characters. We will do this through our Domain Security Policy.<BR><BR>When this happens, what is ...

NIST’s latest password guidelines focus less on length and complexity of secrets and more on other measures such as 2FA, throttling, and blacklists. A comment period has closed on NIST’s new password ...

Outlook.com, Microsoft’s relaunch for Hotmail, has already had over one million new sign-ups from users keen to try it out. Jokers were also quick to grab available email addresses, beating ...

Length is more important than complexity when it comes to secure passwords - and here's a $100 wager to prove it This week’s scheduled column on security maturity has been rescheduled for next week.