The password is nothing new. In fact, it has been around for centuries. Way before Hotmail, Skype and Netflix were prompting you to create a secure code with a funky username, the Roman military ...

When did computer passwords become a thing?

“How could she do something like this to me?” said a voice in my head. All the time. Every day. Back in 2011, when everything had gradients, iOS icons made sense, and people used deodorants, I was ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Computer security just lost one of its founders. Fernando "Corby" Corbato, credited with inventing the computer password, has died at the age ...

University of Texas at Austin researchers have developed a new method to encode information in synthetic molecules. Molecules like DNA can store large amounts of data without requiring an energy ...