"Passwords" Blogs & Blog Posts

A 2011 xkcd comic popularized the idea of using memorable but nonsensical words as passwords. The comic provided the example "correct horse battery staple," which is easy to remember but difficult to crack through brute force methods. Recently, I stu...

Great news! That massive, roughly 7 million people-strong data breach from late last year is your fault, not the 23andMe's. You know your genetic lineage and racial makeup information is in good hands when the company in charge of it immediately lays...

To change your Facebook password, use the Meta Account Center menu on the website or mobile app. Resetting your password helps keep your account safe.

The Interior Department is tasked with protecting the country's natural resources, like gas pipelines. Hundreds of its senior officers even used "password-1234" on their accounts.

The great Neal Agarwal—creator of such delightful browser toys like "Draw A Perfect Circle" and "Days Since Incident"—reveals his latest absurd amusement: The Password Game. The simple but frustrating and fun game asks you to pick a password but...

A cybersecurity update at Illinois' Oak Park and River Forest High School unexpectedly reset all students' passwords. To remedy the problem the school updated every students' password to "Ch@ngeme!" and let everyone know. Yes, they gave all 3,000 stu...

A classic for the Halfwit's Guide to Information Security: change everyone's password to something obviously low-security that encourages them to reset their way to something better. Better still, give them all the same low-security password, so they...