If you’ve ever made an online account, then you’ve come across a password strength meter—that little thing that encourages you to add a little more complexity to your credentials. And, if you’re like ...

Strong passwords are crucial for protecting your data, your privacy, and quite possibly your very life. (Maybe I'm overstating things a bit.) But how do you know if your password is strong enough?

A research paper carried out by the University of California at Berkeley, University of British Columbia and Microsoft studied the effectiveness of a meter that shows users how strong their password ...

When you make a new account for any sort of web site or service, there’s usually a helpful-looking meter to tell how strong the password you came up with is. Don’t listen to those meters. Then he ...

I’ve spent a depressingly large proportion of the last few years writing about the fact that so few people recognize that they’re using poor password and PIN selection strategies. This is unsurprising ...

Website password strength meters, like a spouse asked to assess your haircut or outfit, often tell you only what you want to hear. That’s the finding from researchers at Concordia University in ...

The Password Meter web utility tests the strength of your passwords as you type them, scoring your password strength based on a number of positive and negative password attributes. The test measures ...

We’ve all gone through the process of trying to sign up for a website, only to be told our password isn’t strong enough. But these password strength meters may not be all they’re cracked up to be and ...

New research exposes the weakness of password strength meters, and shows consumers should remain skeptical when the bar turns green in order to create strong passwords. "Create a password" is a prompt ...

Weak. Very Weak. Good. Strong. Online password strength meters are like those carnival mallets that measure how hard you can smash something—or, in this case, how secure you’ve made your access code ...