Most Passwords are Easy to Guess

You might wonder how it is possible that people can guess the passwords of others, but it turns out that it’s a bit easier than you might think. According to a new study, not only has a significant portion of the population tried to guess someone else’s password, but even more of them are successful […]

Understanding the New NIST Guidelines for Password Security

The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has released Special Publication 800-63B, titled Digital Identity Guidelines. The document outlines major changes to the ways password security should be approached and leaves a lot of what network administrators and software developers have implemented recently to be wrong. Today, we’ll take a look at the publication […]