HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — Carmen Fuentes sat down with Karen Reeves, the President and CEO of the Better Business Bureau, to find out ways you can keep your information safe by following these easy ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released updated password guidelines that might surprise you in that they’ve made the dark art of keeping yourself secure slightly ...

Data breaches and hacker attacks target easy to crack passwords. 2 News' Oklahoma's Cathy Tatom listens to a cybersecurity expert to learn how to protect your passwords.

STRONG PASSWORDS. SO WE’VE TALKED ABOUT THIS BEFORE, BUT IT’S WORTH REPEATING. STRONG PASSWORDS ARE ABSOLUTELY THE KEY TO PERSONAL ONLINE SECURITY. I’VE TALKED TO MANY HACKING VICTIMS OVER THE YEARS, ...

Length does matter (ha), but how you create and manage a password often matters just as much, if not more. A long password that's predictable or reused across accounts can still be cracked, leaked or ...

If you’ve been using the same password for years — or worse, the same one across all your accounts — World Password Day can be your opportunity to change that. Hackers and scammers perpetually try to ...

And because different people need different setups (solo users, households, small businesses, big companies), there’s no ...

Passwords are both the bane and the backbone of your online life. Facial recognition and fingerprint scanners have brought us closer to a passwordless future, but we’re not there yet. Most websites ...

Common passwords like "123456" and "password" are easily guessed by hackers. Strong passwords should be 12-16 characters long, mixing upper and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols. Unique ...

As most of you probably know, protecting your Windows systems is very important. One of the best ways to secure your system is to ensure that the administrator passwords, as well as the passwords of ...