We’re all familiar with what a password is: a string of characters used to confirm your identity when logging on to a ...

To create a truly strong password, you should use a mix of upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols.

Cybersecurity company, Hive Systems, has just put out its 2025 Password Table as a continuation of its yearly analysis of how difficult passwords are to crack. The results are in, and while it's not ...

Rover!87*34## would take 34 million years. Once I got to 18 characters, the site reported that my password would take a trillion years to crack. For financial accounts, credit agencies, email accounts ...

You can test the security of your passwords by using a password-strength checker on an online password-security program.

May 9, 2025: Updated to note that this data seems to be referring to a worst case scenario for hackers and assumes that the software tries every other hash first before getting to the correct one. In ...