A threat actor is infecting industrial control systems (ICS) to create a botnet through password "cracking" software for programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Advertised on various social media ...

Apple provides a password reset utility that is very handy when you really need it. In versions of Mac OS X before Lion you accessed this utility by booting your Mac with the included restore DVD. Mac ...

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Passwords increase security, but they can also increase your headaches if they're lost. When a password goes missing, don't panic: Just use the techniques and software detailed here to recover it.

Password resets have always been problematic for helpdesks. Not only are there significant costs associated with the password reset process, but the helpdesk staff’s time could be better spent helping ...

Lately, it seems the more Windows computers I work on, the more users have forgotten their password, or they didn’t tell me the password, and when I can’t reach them, I am stuck with no option to get ...

When you connect to a network share on your LAN or to your .NET Passport account, Windows allows you to save your password in order to use it each time that you connect the remote server. Network ...

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In another vast software supply-chain attack, the password-stealer is filching credentials from Chrome on Windows systems via ChromePass. A credentials-stealing code bomb that uses legitimate password ...

FileVault is OS X's built-in data encryption technology, and when enabled, as with an unencrypted OS X volume you simply enter your account credentials to get into your system. However, given Apple ...