Password strength has become more of a issue in recent years. While it has always been important to select secure passwords, advancements in processing power and distributed computing (for instance cloud computing) have made it more of a pressing matter. Passwords that may have taken weeks or years to crack in the past are now [...]

Categories: Online Services, Security

Passwords are important, very important in fact as they’re usually the only thing preventing criminals from stealing your personal and credit card information, and using your email account for sending spam (and having your account closed shortly afterwards as a result!)  In short it’s critical to have secure and unique passwords for everything these days. [...]

Categories: Advice

One of the problems with Windows Phone when the operating system was first released was that while you could secure your phone with a passcode it was either all or nothing.  This meant that you either had to type in a passcode every single time you wanted to do anything on your phone or it [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

When I worked for one of Germany’s biggest financial organizations back before I started blogging full time, I had to change my user account password on a regular basis. Even worse, they had set the password rules in a way that you could not just re-pick your old password. Heck, you could not even use [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

Windows 8 comes with options to use Windows Live accounts as user accounts on the system, or to use a local account with no ties to the Internet. If security is an issue you have probably selected a secure password for your account log on. That may be inconvenient if you are using a touch [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Facebook users log in to the social networking site with their username and password. Normally you would expect that the password is unique, and that no one else could access the account by entering a different password in the login prompt on the website. If you have thought that then you have been wrong, and [...]

Categories: Facebook

I have to admit that I have not used the Wolfram Alpha search engine as much as I should have in the past year. The specialized search engine, the company calls it a computational knowledge engine, offers some interesting features that other search engines do not offer. One of those features is its password generator, [...]

Categories: Online Services

Ghacks readers know that online security is of uttermost importance. That includes picking passwords that are not common, easy to guess or dictionary words. The majority of Internet users on the other hand select convenience over security when it comes to their online password, or shall I say password. Many users pick a common password [...]

Categories: Email, Security

It is common knowledge that a website, such as PayPal or eBay, will never ask for your password. They do not need it, but rarely do we hear about why that is the case. There are actually a few possibilities. Please note, if you ever get an e-mail requesting your username and password, it is [...]

Categories: Security, Tutorials Basic