What the Tech: See the easy way to keep up with all of your passwords
Apple and Google are making it easier for you to keep up with all of your digital passwords.
Apple and Google are making it easier for you to keep up with all of your digital passwords.
See the 4-digit PINs that are the easiest for hackers to crack, setting you up to have your personal information stolen. Are you at risk?
What looks like a jumbled bunch of letters can be a password that’s both easy for you to remember and nearly impossible for hackers to crack.
Here’s a free way to create passwords that could take a hacker trillions of years to crack but will be easy for you to remember.
What can you do to log in to a Facebook or Apple account if you’ve forgotten the password?
Recent data leaks by AT&T and Roku show that strong passwords are needed. How strong are yours?
Passkeys eliminate the need to receive a text message with a sign-in code that you must enter into any account using 2-factor authentication.
Passkeys promise to be more secure, since no one can log in without your face or fingerprint.
A 13-character numbers-only password can be cracked immediately while a 13-character mixture of numbers, upper and lower case letters and symbols will take three million years.
The FBI recommends 14 characters, a mix of upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols, no common words, and using a different password for every account. But how can you remember all of that?