If you don’t count hackers, phishers and pirates, most computer users hate passwords. Tech giants have been predicting the death of passwords since 2004 when Bill Gates foretold of their inevitable ...

These days, every electronic device, app, program, and platform has a login. A survey conducted by Nordpass in 2024 estimated that the average technology user has more than 100 passwords to ...

You probably need to change your password. Computer users who have one of the 10,000 most popular passwords in the United States are at greater risk of being hacked ...

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Before I started at Slate in 2022, I was a little nervous about taking on my new job as politics director. I was confident I could learn the ropes ...

We've been using computer passwords for decades, yet it seems like no one can agree on how you should pick a password, what it should contain, and if a password is good enough. Let's cut through it.

Many of today’s computer passwords are stored and transmitted in a cryptographic hashed form. A strong password hash algorithm ensures that if the password hash is obtained by unauthorized parties ...