Forget painful gibberish like &!pR8B>5. Here's how to build a single, bulletproof master password using Shakespeare, random words, and simple padding. When the IBM PC was new, I served as the ...

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Unwise design choices from a specialty password manager allowed any malicious website to obtain complete, persistent access to customers' vaults. "Passportal" is a credential management product from N ...

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We are often told how important it is to use a password manager to keep our online presence safely protected, and considering how much we store in our virtual accounts, it’s sensible advice. After all ...

Apps from Apple, Google and others can assist in making your online accounts more secure, even as new ways of logging in continue to take off. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer writes about how to ...