It seems like every week, someone reaches out to me about passwords. And it's no wonder – with the constant threat of hacking and data breaches, creating and remembering strong, unique passwords for ...

The reason that passwords are easy to break, crack and hack has always been because of the people that come up with them.

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 ...

Still using "123456" or your birth year as a password? It's time to stop. Using weak and commonly used passwords is one of the main reasons why you can be hacked. Fortunately, you can easily level up ...

And because different people need different setups (solo users, households, small businesses, big companies), there’s no ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Over the years, there have been plenty of people trying to ...

The RockYou2024 leak, which exposed almost 10 billion passwords in July of last year, might seem like old news, but its impact is still felt today. It's considered ...

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 ...

Katherine Haan, MBA, is a Senior Staff Writer for Forbes Advisor and a former financial advisor turned international bestselling author and business coach. For more than a decade, she’s helped small ...