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 ...

Short and simple passwords can be cracked in a matter of seconds. Long and complicated ones? Trillions of years. That's according to a recent study from Hive Systems, a cybersecurity company based in ...

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 ...

There is a reason why most services ask for a specific number of characters for passwords, and even specific types of characters. If you’ve ever wondered why, well, a cybersecurity firm, Hive Systems, ...

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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 ...

Password-manager purveyor LastPass has announced it's setting new rules about the strength of customer passwords, with a new mandate that account master passwords include a minimum of 12 characters. A ...

Microsoft says: “Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters” Analysis Oct 8, 2007 2 mins ...

That “strong” password from ChatGPT might already follow a pattern hackers know how to exploit ...