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?

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 ...

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 ...

In general, any account that you have with a weak password could be at risk of being hacked. To eliminate concern, there are free password-strength-checking tools available online. Nicole Cozma has an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Laura wrote about e-commerce and Amazon, and she occasionally covered cool science topics. Previously, she broke down cybersecurity and privacy issues for CNET readers. Laura is based in Tacoma, ...

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 ...