People who regularly use online services have between 100 and 200 passwords. Very few can remember every single one. Password ...

Security researchers have published a paper demonstrating several ways password managers can be hacked. Is it time to make a change?

All eight of the top password managers have adopted the term “zero knowledge” to describe the complex encryption system they use to protect the data vaults that users store on their servers. The ...

A new study from ETH Zurich is causing some serious re-evaluation of the use of cloud-based password managers, as the ...

Researchers demo weaknesses affecting some of the most popular options Academics say they found a series of flaws affecting three popular password managers, all of which claim to protect user ...

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 ...

If you're still a LastPass customer by now, you should consider ditching the password manager app the first chance you get. Well, that's after Christmas or the holidays because that's what most people ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Last month, the company announced that threat actors had accessed “certain elements” of customer info. Just as ...

I know "encrypt" isn't the right description here. It's more like trying to "obfuscate" or "scramble" a password in a plaintext shell script. Say you have a UNIX shell script that does FTP to Windows ...