Want to remove Password Complexity requirements? In Windows 11 and Windows 10, it is possible to customize the Password Policy using the Local Security Policy panel ...

We have about 30 remote users who dial into a Cisco RAS from a notebook with WinXP Pro. We recently (as in Monday, the 8th) established and put into place GPO for passwords. The reset hit in an ...

Have we finally cracked the code on password security? A recent update to password best practices from the National Institute ...

In today's digital landscape, robust password management is critical to information security. With the increasing complexity of cyber threats, ensuring secure access to sensitive information has ...

UPDATE FROM AUTHOR: As noted by several commenters this post focuses on brute force; I will discuss the rainbow table issue at length in next month's column. About a month ago, I was walking through ...

We all use passwords. We use them for our phones, our computers, our e-mail, and just about every other kind of personal account. Unfortunately, many of us use simple passwords, such as “Password1” or ...

I had an argument with a very smart, very capable server-side programmer a few years ago when I was integrating a project of my own with the Web services API (application programming interface) that ...

What I'm getting at is that the password change form needs more explicit information on it. I don't want to have my password change silently fail because I used some entropy-increasing complexity not ...