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Your iPhone's passcode is the first line of defense when it comes to protecting your private data. Here's how to set up a stronger one than the default six-digit passcode that you're likely already ...

Nowadays, it seems that we cannot do anything without passwords. Experts constantly warn us to be careful about using passwords that can be easily figured out by bad actors, advising us to create long ...

In iOS 17, if you change your iPhone's passcode and forget it soon after, Apple offers you a 72-hour grace period to fix it without getting locked out of your device. Here's how it works. In iOS 17 ...

The iPhone offers strong end-to-end encryption for all your data, and that's a great feature to have on the most important computer in your life. But that encryption is only as good as the PIN or ...

From phones to bank accounts, most of us juggle several passwords, PINs, and passcodes, making it hard to keep track of all of them. Maybe it's happened to you: you pick up your iPad, swipe to unlock ...

Raise your hand if you’ve avoided enabling two-factor authentication for websites that offer it because it’s too much of a hassle to launch an app, find the appropriate site entry, copy a six-digit ...

Guess how long it would take a computer to brute-force an 8-number password. The answer: instantly. That's according to Hive Systems' Password Table, which shows how shockingly quick passwords of ...