Nearly all of the computer historians contacted by Wired in the past few weeks said that the first password must have come from MIT’s Compatible Time-Sharing System. In geek circles, it’s famous.

They are annoying, insecure and cumbersome. Even with the recent rise in two-factor authentication, nothing has fully supplanted them, and they remain a crucial portion of most computer security ...

In the 1960s, Fernando Corbató helped deploy the first computer password. He acknowledges the password's flaws and the public's frustrations, having to remember strings of code for dozens of ...

Not sure you trust password managers? A cartoon has some good advice for you. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor Aug. 12, 2011 at 8:27 a.m. PT ...

Nearly all of the computer historians contacted by Wired in the past few weeks said that the first password must have come from MIT’s Compatible Time-Sharing System. In geek circles, it’s famous.

Nearly all of the computer historians contacted by Wired in the past few weeks said that the first password must have come from MIT's Compatible Time-Sharing System. In geek circles, it's famous ...