I used to keep every password I had in a little notebook, which sounds charming in theory, but felt like a minor life crisis in practice. Any time I needed to log in, I’d flip through what felt like a ...

For the last seven years, NordPass has compiled an annual list of the Top 200 Most Common Passwords. The 2025 edition revealed that despite many, many warnings, people have not gotten any better at ...

Passwords play a huge role in how you stay safe online. They protect your accounts, devices and money. Still, many people pick logins that criminals can guess in seconds. The latest NordPass report ...

Microsoft warned users that Windows 11 updates released since August may cause the password sign-in option to disappear from the lock screen options, even though the button remains functional. On ...

In its infancy, AI was content to use whatever processing capacity was available. Now, AI data center operators are finding they've got very specific needs that aren't well met by off-the-shelf ...

CompariTech on Thursday released a report detailing the most-used passwords of 2025, which reveals that "123456" is the worst password of the year. More than 7.61 million accounts out of 2 billion ...

If you are a system administrator and are looking for ways to make your Linux system more secure or want to automate certain processes, creating a non-login user is the solution. Non-login users can ...

The 180-day password change is being removed for Ohio State users as the Office of Technology and Digital Innovation announced the switch from passwords to passphrases. Rob Lowden, vice president of ...

Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are infertile or gay couples have babies with their own genes but would also raise ...

Google wants you to start using passkeys. Its vision is to “progress toward a passwordless future," allowing you to store passkeys in the Google Password Manager service. For websites that support the ...

Password is one of the sign-in methods for your Microsoft account. If you forget your password, you can use alternative methods to sign in or reset your account password. Some users attempted to reset ...

Repeated prompts to enter your Git username and password are a frustrating annoyance developers can live without. Unfortunately, if your Git installation has not been configured to use a credential ...