passwords

Read highlights from our top posts in October.

Twitter debuts a grand but simple plan to replace passwords where your phone number is your username and an SMS-generated code is your password.

New research shows that studying and mnemonic devices could help us to better remember our passwords.

Your primary email account is often the master key that can provide backup access to all other accounts, which is why you must be particularly careful with it.

In the news: Microsoft’s No-IP takedown fiasco, Chinese APT groups curious about U.S. Iraq policy, Verizon says the government wants locations data, and Microsoft denies backdoor insinuations.

Making a case for password reuse, Google hiring hackers to fix the Internet, Apple bolsters security across its services with strong Crypto, plus various fixes and more.

Enabling two-factor authentication makes it significantly harder for an attacker to compromise your online accounts, but what is it and when should you use it?

eBay users will be forced to change their passwords because of a data breach that exposed encrypted user credentials.

Top Apps to protect you from prying eyes, mischievous kids, thieves, natural disasters, forgetfulness and of course malware.

UPDATE: A previous version of this article stated – citing a list on Github – that users on a site called HideMyAss were affected by Heartbleed. A spokesperson from that

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Kaspersky Lab’s Brian Donohue explains two-factor authentication Download podcast for offline listening

Almost all computer security instructions, whether it is a help page on Facebook, corporate regulations or part of the “… for dummies” series, urge us to use strong passwords at

You already know how to easily create and use the passwords database using Password Manager in Kaspersky PURE 3.0 for quick and safe on-site authorization. But keeping pace with time

With the increasing importance of online life, each of us faces the need to use more and more web services: social networks, e-mail, online banking and so on. Each service

These days we conduct so much of our lives online that invariably – whether it is with our online bank accounts, our shopping sites, our credit cards, our emails –

With the holiday season upon us Kaspersky Lab put together some tips for safe holiday shopping!  

Making a good password is more important than ever and with as many sensitive accounts – email, credit cards, shared documents – as we have online today there’s simply no