People who regularly use online services have between 100 and 200 passwords. Very few can remember every single one. Password managers are therefore extremely helpful, allowing users to access all ...

Researchers demo weaknesses affecting some of the most popular options Academics say they found a series of flaws affecting ...

Academic study finds 25 attack methods in major cloud password managers exposing vault, recovery, and encryption design risks.

Learn how to choose a business-ready password manager by evaluating security, admin controls, scalability, and integration ...

Encryption, for security purposes, is also known as a cipher. It is a mathematical algorithm that hides information or makes it secret. Data that is not encrypted is called plain text, while encrypted ...

A group of academic security researchers have detailed a set of vulnerabilities in four popular cloud-based password managers that could allow an attacker to view and change the passwords stored in a ...

Small businesses are prime targets for credential attacks. Learn why a password manager is essential for reducing risk, ...

Passwords sit somewhere between the daily annoyance and necessary evil of the digital age. Once upon a time, most of us had that single, easy-to-remember six-digit password that we used for every site ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...