Password Security
What Is Password Spraying and How to Protect Your Passwords Against It?
When we're talking about the security of our accounts, we usually talk about passwords because people often assume that if your password is compromised, your account is compromised. That's not completely true, though.... Read more
Top 3 Password Security Mistakes Users Make Every Day
On the face of it, the concept of proving your identity with a combination of a username and a password isn't really that complicated. Yet, cyberattacks happen every day, they're often quite costly, and many of them... Read more
How to Create a Secure Password for Your PayPal Account
PayPal is one of the most widely used and secure payment platforms online. With it, paying bills, purchasing goods from eBay sellers and even sending money to friends or family becomes as easy as clicking a few... Read more
How Top Websites Play a Part in the Epidemic of Weak Passwords
We hear all the time how vital password security is or how to strengthen passwords and yet many popular websites do not encourage their users to create robust passcodes that would be hard to crack. Steve Furnell, an... Read more
What Is Web Scraping and How Could It Put Passwords and Other Personal Data at Risk?
Information is extremely valuable nowadays, and while some come up with ways to gather it legally, there are always cybercriminals who employ those methods to obtain sensitive information that is supposed to be out of... Read more
Why You Should Not Rely on Firefox's Master Password
Like most of the browsers, Firefox offers to save your passwords and then auto-fill the blanks later on whenever you access a specific website. It surely saves your time, and you no longer need to remember long... Read more
You Might Be Forced to Reveal Your Password: How to Determine If It Is Safe to Do So
Law enforcement agents or border police officers asking suspects and travelers for passwords or biometric data so that they can search through electronic devices. It's a relatively new scenario and one that has... Read more
A Passphrase Is a Terrific Tool You Can Employ, but Is It All You Need?
The year was 2011, and security professionals were fighting a losing battle. They were typing their fingers to the bone trying to convince users that creating truly strong passwords is very important. They were... Read more
What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Using a Password Manager
Many users already know creating strong passwords is one of the ways to protect their accounts. Nevertheless, not everyone chooses complex combinations from random characters. In fact, specialists researching... Read more
How Spam Emails Can Be Used to Steal Your Gmail Password
Having a strong, unique password is not always enough to protect your Gmail account against cybercriminals. The research shows you cannot always rely on Two-Factor authentication either, so you may wonder what it... Read more
Is It Safe to Copy and Paste Passwords on Websites?
Designing an online service is not easy, and doing it properly is even harder. You have many things to think about, including the look of the product, the usability, the performance, and, of course, the users'... Read more
Cybercriminals Use Man-in-the-Middle Attacks to Steal Login Information
Cybersecurity is one of the most discussed topics nowadays, and it is no wonder given the amount of sensitive data available online is increasing every day just as well as the number of hackers who seek to obtain it.... Read more
What is Shoulder Surfing? Tips to Prevent Shoulder Surfing Password Attacks
There are many different ways of stealing a password. You might think that all of them require technical knowledge or, at best, a computer that's connected to the Internet. That's not strictly true. With one... Read more
Your Streaming Service Passwords (Netflix, Hulu, HBO, and Others) Could Be on the Black Market
Many cybersecurity articles nowadays discuss how easy it is for someone to steal an account's login information if the user is not too careful, but do you know what cybercriminals do with such data? No doubt, a lot of... Read more
Instagram Offers a New Verification Tool to Help Users Secure Their Accounts and Passwords
Are you an Instagram story person? Do you prefer posting one picture at a time, or do you like adding several photos to your IG post? Are you a silent lurker or do you like going online for regular live broadcasts?... Read more
Users Often Pick Weak Passwords When Forced to Change Them, but That Is a Huge Mistake!
Many still think that forcing the user to change passwords often is a good thing, but there are quite a lot of security specialists who believe asking the user to change passwords periodically might be more harmful... Read more
Should You Trust Web Browsers to Remember Your Passwords?
Anyone who browses the web every single day must be so used to usernames and passwords that they do not even think much about it anymore. What's more, entering your password when you try to access a certain page has... Read more
What Is a Brute-Force Attack and How to Prevent It
We all need to solve CAPTCHAs now and then, but have you ever thought what the purpose of these sometimes annoying tests is? And what does CAPTCHA mean anyway? It stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to... Read more
