Every year the private digital security company NordPass publishes a list of the most popular passwords across 30 countries. And as always, the current list from 2022 also contains shockingly simple ...

Creating a strong, secure password is a skill that seems to elude many people in Britain, with the most common password in the country still being admin, followed by 123456. Many sites now force users ...

When engineer Bill Burr from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wrote in 2003 what would soon become the world’s gold standard for password security, he advised people and ...

Nowadays, passwords are needed for just about everything, whether it’s online shopping, reading the news, or just scrolling social media. But this can be tiresome, and many of us are guilty of taking ...

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