It's strange when you think about it. We password protect our laptop and obsess about keeping it secure, but many people barely give a passing thought to securing their phone. I don't want to paint ...

Having an unlocked iPhone–without so much as a four-digit barrier between you and some subway snatcher–is asking for trouble. Four-digit passcodes or PINs were the only way to secure the earliest ...

How secure are your passwords? Probably not very. The guys over at Popsci have a neat partial solution to that problem: a DIY alphanumeric random password generator. Made with an Olimex AVR ...

You probably know that your iPhone features a simple passcode functionality that secures the device by requiring, by default, a 4-digit PIN to unlock your phone. But as you also probably know, a ...

In this paper, the authors report on a study of brute force attack on CFG passwords. Alphanumeric passwords are the common and usual mode of authentication for a range of online login. Human ...