Your online password should exceed eight characters so you can avoid the potential hacking incidents from the hackers, according to the latest research. If your ...

I was trying to connect one of my finance sites to a mint.com-like service. It was failing. I got an email from support saying that, "` (back quote on the ~ key), \ , < , or > ? Note that most ...

Several readers of late have noticed that after entering an eight-character password in Mac OS X (for an installer, or other activities), any extra characters typed will be ignored. This effectively ...

A significant portion of cyber breaches begin with one simple issue: weak passwords. With modern cracking tools capable of testing billions of combinations per second, many passwords that users ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. An overdue safety upgrade after a major security meltdown. An overdue safety upgrade after a major security ...

I'm not sure how secret this policy is when Windows Live had a 16 character limit since inception in 2005. Per the help document; Contains seven to sixteen characters. Uses three of the following four ...

iChat AIM passwords cannot be longer than 16 characters MacFixIt reader Jonathan reports that AOL Instant Messenger passwords cannot be longer than 16 letters, despite iChat's acceptance of passwords ...

LastPass notified customers today that they are now required to use complex master passwords with a minimum of 12 characters to increase their accounts' security ...

Microsoft has finally come to the conclusion that, as far as passwords are concerned, size really does matter after all. Alex Simons, vice-president of program management at Microsoft's Identity ...

Microsoft has announced that they have removed the 16 character Azure Active Directory password limit and admins can now use up to a maximum of 256 characters. This aligns the passwords lengths with ...

We've talked before about using a longer passcode on your iPhone instead of a 4-digit pin, but as the tech blog Digital Inspiration points out, adding in accented characters adds yet another level of ...