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A password manager can help keep your private data secure, and they're easier to use than you may think. Attila covers software, apps and services, with a focus on virtual private networks. He's an ...

Creating a Google username gives you access to a variety of sites and services -- for example, you need a Google account before you can create a YouTube account. You have two options when it comes to ...

How do you create a strong password? Easy: You mash your keyboard for a few seconds until you have a 50-character hunk of gibberish, then you copy and paste that into ...

Security experts have warned for years that to protect our online accounts we need to change passwords frequently and make sure that those passwords are "complex"—meaning filled with letters, numbers ...

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Stealing passwords is one of the oldest moves in hackers’ book. Ever since Internet accounts have existed, people have been trying to break into them. Password scavengers have been remarkably ...

The first Thursday of May is World Password Day, a day to remind ourselves of the importance of making our digital lives more secure. For better or worse, just about everything we do is connected, ...

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Passwords are one thing we forget, and the reason is that we tend to create complex and secure passwords that are hard to remember. In this article, I’ll tell you how to create a Password Reset Disk ...