The password manager service LastPass is now forcing some of its users to pick longer master passwords. LastPass says the changes are needed to ensure all customers are protected by their latest ...

People are bad at passwords. Most don’t bother with the unique, complex phrases or character strings that make a good password. Worse, they share weak passwords with others. The best password managers ...

Maintaining strong and unique passwords for our online accounts is crucial for security. However, remembering complex passwords for dozens or even hundreds of accounts can be a daunting challenge, ...

Learn how to set up and use LastPass password manager. Start managing and storing your passwords with this step-by-step guide. LastPass’ history of data breaches makes it hard to recommend as a viable ...

Using a password manager is smart security. That’s nothing new. However, the best password managers keep your credentials locked behind a single "master" password that only you know. But what happens ...

For the 2025 Specops Weak Password Report, researchers analyzed around 1.089 billion stolen passwords and found that the most commonly breached passwords consisted of eight characters. Alarmingly, out ...

Update, March 13, 2025: This story, originally published March 12, has been updated with a statement from 1Password’s chief technology officer regarding the ongoing master password and secret key ...

KeePass has released version 2.54, fixing the CVE-2023-32784 vulnerability that allows the extraction of the cleartext master password from the application's memory. When creating a new KeePass ...

Password manager LastPass said Monday that email addresses and encrypted master passwords were compromised in a breach. LastPass CEO Joe Siegrist wrote in a blog post that the company does not believe ...

The popular KeePass password manager is vulnerable to extracting the master password from the application's memory, allowing attackers who compromise a device to retrieve the password even with the ...