If you’re still writing passwords on sticky notes or saving them in your phone’s notes app, there’s a safer, easier way.

Create stronger, more secure passwords: We are nagged to do it all the time, but few of us actually make the effort. Meanwhile, passwords continue to be stolen, leaked, and cracked on a regular basis.

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Q: I saw PCWorld’s lists for the best password managers, and your top picks were for cloud-based services. Wouldn’t a locally stored password database be more secure? A: One of our top password ...

If you think only an idiot would an easy-to-guess email password like "123456," think again. In his KrebsOnSecurity blog, researcher Brian Krebs wrote that he'd obtained a database of user names ...

How to Create a MySQL 8 Database User With Remote Access Your email has been sent At some point, you're going to need to connect to a MySQL 8 database remotely to manage your databases. Here's how to ...

Today's report by security expert Jeremiah Fowler of a massive unsecured database full of usernames and passwords shouldn't necessarily frighten you, but it should spur you to action. If you have any ...

To repurpose an ancient advertising slogan: Do you Yahoo? Then you may want to change your account's password, along with that of any other services that use the same one, following a public breach of ...