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 ...

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 ...

Password strength meters are effective in nudging users to come up with strong passwords for important accounts, but for new account registrations, or for unimportant accounts, users rely on old and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever been nagged about the weakness of your password while changing account credentials on Google, Facebook, or any number of other sites, you may have wondered: do these things actually ...

The original Ghostbusters movie is a classic that’s still delivering nearly 40 years after its release — just let that sink in for a minute. Almost every aspect of the film, from hand props to quotes, ...