We have about 30 remote users who dial into a Cisco RAS from a notebook with WinXP Pro. We recently (as in Monday, the 8th) established and put into place GPO for passwords. The reset hit in an ...

Have we finally cracked the code on password security? A recent update to password best practices from the National Institute of Standards and Technology revealed that longer login credentials indeed ...

A NIST proposal says requiring users to come up with highly complex passwords creates the possibility that users will write down the passwords in an unsafe manner ...

Time to tighten up your password complexity, dear readers. A deep learning password guessing tool called PassGAN has been found to take less than six minutes to crack your seven-character password, ...

Modern IT system administrators know the importance of maintaining a strong password policy. In this article, we'll explore the evolution of password policies, from basic to advanced, and discuss the ...

Want to remove Password Complexity requirements? In Windows 11 and Windows 10, it is possible to customize the Password Policy using the Local Security Policy panel ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. By mapping out what the report refers to as a heat map of ...

Security pundits have long called for the banishment of passwords, but the fact is they aren’t going anywhere, anytime soon. In fact, 88% of organizations still use passwords as their main form of ...

Even after years of reminders to use stronger passwords, organizations are still using weak passwords, such as variations of "password" and "123456," to secure their remote desktop protocol (RDP) ...

Sharing a computer with multiple people can be challenging, especially when it comes to protecting that PC against security risks. Whether you use a shared PC at home, in a home office, or in a small ...

Look, if you were to ask me about using smiley faces as passwords in 2025 I would, quite frankly, say you were suffering from some kind of security breakdown. I mean, if you don’t want to use a ...