When security questions and password hints are required for your accounts, you might not be filling them out wisely. To best protect your account security, you shouldn’t be truthful in these fields.

Google finds those password secret questions aren't so safe — -- Google analyzed hundreds of millions of password security questions and answers, revealing how startlingly easy it is for would-be ...

I just love how many Web sites take my complex, hard-to-guess password and make it as easy to crack as guessing my favorite color or the city of my birth. It seems nearly every Web site comes with ...

Choose to set up Windows 10 or 11 with a local account, and you're required to select three security questions to answer if you ever get locked out. Those questions include the typical ones, such as ...

Password security is changing — and updated guidelines from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) reject outdated practices in favor of more effective protections. Don't have time ...

A security flaw in the original design of HealthCare.gov that could have disclosed e-mail and other account information to hackers was eliminated Monday during an overnight fix, a Center for Medicare ...