If you don’t count hackers, phishers and pirates, most computer users hate passwords. Tech giants have been predicting the death of passwords since 2004 when Bill Gates foretold of their inevitable ...

ATLANTA -- Nowadays, with the world more conscious of security in general, and with real danger from viruses and hackers, it may be time to review the security on your home computer. Nothing you can ...

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Before I started at Slate in 2022, I was a little nervous about taking on my new job as politics director. I was confident I could learn the ropes ...

You probably need to change your password. Computer users who have one of the 10,000 most popular passwords in the United States are at greater risk of being hacked ...

Internet security firm SplashData has revealed the 25 most common passwords of 2014, and if yours happens to be one of them, change it immediately. The company compiled the data based on 3.3 million ...