Strong passwords are crucial for protecting your data, your privacy, and quite possibly your very life. (Maybe I'm overstating things a bit.) But how do you know if your password is strong enough?

If you’ve ever made an online account, then you’ve come across a password strength meter—that little thing that encourages you to add a little more complexity to your credentials. And, if you’re like ...

We’ve all gone through the process of trying to sign up for a website, only to be told our password isn’t strong enough. But these password strength meters may not be all they’re cracked up to be and ...

If you've ever been nagged about the weakness of your password while changing account credentials on Google, Facebook, or any number of other sites, you may have wondered: do these things actually ...

“Create a password” is a prompt familiar to anyone who has tried to buy a book from Amazon or register for a Google account. Equally familiar is that red / yellow / green bar that rates the new ...

All the same, the need for password strength meters is as important today as ever. Unfortunately, many people today still opt for passwords that are dictionary words while others, believe it or not, ...