Change your passwords today (World Password Day)

May 05, 2022

This may have slipped your attention with everything going on, but today is World Password Day.

Started in 2013, World Password Day is meant to encourage good password habits to help keep your online life secure.

Get started by clearing out all the old passwords that have already been compromised. Apple makes it easy and it only takes a short while -- see our top post.

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-- Leander Kahney, EIC.

There’s a good chance that some company’s lax security has already let hackers steal the password you use for their website. And it could have happened with a bunch of them. Fortunately, your Apple devices make it easy to find out which of your passwords have leaked out so you can change them.

Apple, Google and Microsoft committed themselves to expand support for a passwordless sign-in standard. The goal is to make it easier for websites and applications to offer consistent, secure and easy passwordless sign-ins. It’s a move toward greater support for biometric security systems like the ones already included in iPhone, Mac and iPad.

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"Now when we see new things or opportunities, we can seize them. In fact, we have already seized a few, like desktop movies, wireless networking, and iTools. A creative period like this lasts only maybe a decade, but it can be a golden decade if we manage it properly." -- Steve Jobs.

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