Think about your digital footprint. How many accounts have you created online since you first started using the internet? How many of those use the same passwords, so you have an easier time logging ...

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If there is one password though that should be totally unique and not anything like any other password you use — not based on a code or a sequence or anything else — it should be your email. Because ...

The days of using your first child’s name and birth date for all your passwords are long gone. That’s just too easy to crack, security experts say. Instead, we were told to use assortments of words ...

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