As the federal government comes under attack by increasingly sophisticated threat actors, encrypting data, hashing passwords and salting hashes are becoming more important.

For passwords, it works like this. Users have to type in their username and password every time they log in. What we need to do is to take that password and hash it (compute a unique value using a ...

What is a password manager? A password manager is a software app that helps create, store, and manage passwords and other sensitive information in a secure, encrypted digital vault.

Officials in Ireland have fined Meta $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext and making them broadly available to company employees. Meta disclosed the lapse ...