Password cracking software has algorithms and brute force techniques scanning billions of passwords per second, keeping into account the rules most people follow.

It is only a matter of time a seemingly strong password based on these rules is hacked, based on the constantly...

One can make passwords more human, telling a three-word story or a phrase that is personal, individualistic and outside the rule book of computers.

A phrase consisting of three words is surprisingly difficult to crack, providing it is original and not something out ...

By following the password guidelines, we are paradoxically making our private information more prone to hacking, as we are using the language used by computers. We don’t talk in the strange character sequences used in passwords, but the machines do.