On older Solaris systems, you would only see a few tunable parameters for controlling passwords. MINWEEKS determined the number of weeks that a user was required to ...

Attackers don't need AI to crack passwords, they build targeted wordlists from an organization's own public language. This article explains how tools like CeWL turn websites into high-success password ...

A few weeks ago, I mentioned a contest that InfoWorld columnist Roger Grimes was having to prove that long passwords are just as good or better than complex passwords. Today, in a vacation edition of ...

Length is more important than complexity when it comes to secure passwords - and here's a $100 wager to prove it This week’s scheduled column on security maturity has been rescheduled for next week.

Edith Cowan University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Passwords have been used for thousands of years as a means of identifying ourselves to others and in more recent times, to ...