Length is more important than complexity when it comes to secure passwords - and here's a $100 wager to prove it This week’s scheduled column on security maturity has been rescheduled for next week.

For more than a decade now, security experts have had discussions about what's the best way of choosing passwords for online accounts. There's one camp that argues for password complexity by ...

Tanawit – stock.adobe.com “Many attacks associated with password use are not affected by password complexity and length,” NIST wrote. “Keystroke logging, phishing, and social engineering ...

Few Internet frustrations are so familiar as the password restriction. After creating a few (dozen) logins for all our Web presences, the use of symbols ... effect of complexity rules on security ...

advises that password length is much more important than password complexity. Instead of using a short, complex password that is hard to remember, consider using a longer passphrase. This involves ...

It's not how sophisticated one makes their password, but how many variations they have — or don't have — that make them security risks. In his look at the top seven human risks associated with ...

As Reddit user GentleRhino reminds us, tacking on a few extra numbers to the end of some regular words is bad password form. However, mixing those numbers into the words increases complexity.

Both modern Windows systems (e.g., Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2) and Active Directory, like Linux and Solaris systems, allow you to configure password policies that determine how long and ...