If you don’t count hackers, phishers and pirates, most computer users hate passwords. Tech giants have been predicting the death of passwords since 2004 when Bill Gates foretold of their inevitable ...

When did computer passwords become a thing?

You probably need to change your password. Computer users who have one of the 10,000 most popular passwords in the United States are at greater risk of being hacked ...

Passwords for security purposes trace their way back to the Romans, who used watchwords to discern friend from foe. However, the digital password has been around longer than you might think, as it was ...

Passwords used by many of Sweden’s cyber elite are now available on the Internet following a hack against the Swedish Computer Society, an organization of IT professionals. Among the victims are a ...

University of Texas at Austin researchers have developed a new method to encode information in synthetic molecules. Molecules like DNA can store large amounts of data without requiring an energy ...

Internet security firm SplashData has revealed the 25 most common passwords of 2014, and if yours happens to be one of them, change it immediately. The company compiled the data based on 3.3 million ...