Heidi Mitchell is a contributor to Buy Side and expert on travel, cybersecurity and technology. Updated October 22, 2024, 5:56 PM EDT $3 $4 $3 $5 Conventional wisdom (and some oft-cited research) says ...

A password manager is a program that stores passwords and logins for various sites and apps, and that generates new strong passwords when a user needs to change an old one or create a new account.

Think about your digital footprint. How many accounts have you created online since you first started using the internet? How many of those use the same passwords, so you have an easier time logging ...

As organizations embrace hybrid and remote work models, the surge in online accounts supporting workflows has led to a growing challenge of managing numerous login credentials. This not only escalates ...

Every year the private digital security company NordPass publishes a list of the most popular passwords across 30 countries. And as always, the current list from 2022 also contains shockingly simple ...

People are bad at passwords. Most don’t bother with the unique, complex phrases or character strings that make a good password. Worse, they share weak passwords with others. The best password managers ...

The hacking of the password manager should make us reassess whether to trust companies to store our sensitive data in the cloud. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is the lead consumer technology writer ...