Enable and Manage Passwords & Form-fill in Edge browser

Microsoft Edge browser lets you remember and manage passwords in Windows 10. Although the feature is pretty basic, it is good enough and meets the purpose. Like most browsers, Edge also supports Form-fill. This feature remembers your oft-filled information and […]

Set or Change Windows 10 Sign in options like Password, PIN, Picture Password

Microsoft brings multiple features and capabilities to Windows 10 and makes it easier than ever to authenticate yourself on a PC. You can use a Password, PIN, Picture Password for logging into your computer. From the Windows login screen, you […]

Best Password Managers for Windows Phone 8.1

Whether it might be a bank website or shopping website, you need to enter the login credentials (both user name and password). So, just by entering user name and password, anyone can access your account. This shows how important login […]

Enpass: Free cross-platform Password Manager

One of the most used software now a days are Password Managers. They are quite helpful and they can handle your private information very safely. Enpass is one such which is available for each and every platform you can think […]

How to disable Password Caching in Internet Explorer on Windows

Whenever we visit a password protected website on Internet Explorer, we have the option to save our credentials. Thus for the Windows Security prompt, if we check “Save this password in your password list” option, Internet Explorer saves our credentials […]

Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) from Microsoft

Microsoft has released Local Administrator Password Solution. LAPs will provide a solution to the issue of using a common local account with an identical password on every Windows computer in a domain, by setting up a random, different password for […]

Password Alert extension for Google Chrome will protect you from phishing attacks

No matter how strong our security settings are, hackers always find some way or the other to intrude in our computer systems and steal our personal details. Hackers and cybercriminals always keep finding the innovative ways to lure users to share […]

SuperEasy Password Manager Free for Windows

Do you use a single password for all your online accounts? If yes, you are actually calling for a big trouble. For security reasons, it is always suggested to have different passwords for your online accounts, however, it is never […]

How to change the password expiry notice default period in Windows 10

In earlier versions of Windows, the default interval that users were notified of password expiration was 14 days before expiration. In Windows 10/8/7, the default password expiry notice occurs 5 days before the password expiration date. This is by design. […]

Secure Windows with Biometric computer security devices

Biometric devices are devices that can be used to recognise our unique identifications, like finger prints or eye retina patterns. In the beginning when this type of security measures were introduced, only big organisations used them to secure data against […]

PWGen: Create cryptographically secure passwords or passphrases

These days, everyone should come with an additional layer of security for one’s online accounts. No matter whether this is your social media account, email account or internet banking account, it’s essential to set an exceptionally strong and difficult to […]

Brute Force Attacks – Definition and Prevention

There are many methods hackers use to get into a computer, computer network, a website or an online service. Carrying out a Brute Force Attack is one of them. It is one of the simplest, yet time consuming method to hack […]

What is Microsoft’s policy about lost Windows passwords?

The Windows operating system, includes log in protection to help prevent unauthorized access to the computer. When anyone tries to access a computer, if the user has set a password, he will be asked to provide the password, only after […]

List of free Password Recovery tools: Windows, Browsers, Mail, Web, Wi-Fi, etc.

Best intentions notwithstanding, there are times when we do forget our passwords. It is at such times that tools & utilities like these help us recover our lost or forgotten passwords. Here is a list of some free Password Recovery […]

How to see and manage saved passwords in Opera

Opera web browser includes a built-in password manager that will save your username, paswword and online forms which may be required for logging into websites. We have already seen how we can manage Passwords in Internet Explorer using Credentials Manager– […]

Prevent users from changing Password in Windows 10/8/7

There may be times when you may want to restrict or prevent users from changing Password in Windows 10/8. The reasons could be many – maybe you have two users using the same user account to log into Windows, and […]

Enable and use Chrome built-in Password Generator

Not many of you may know this. Google Chrome browser includes a built-in Password Generator, which can generate complex passwords for you when you are signing up for new online services. Currently, it is not enabled by default; you will […]

LastPass is a Password Manager that works on all your devices

With LastPasssPassword Manager, you have to remember only one password, and it is the master password to access your password vault. That is why they advertise it as “The last password you have to remember”, you got your answer that […]

Browser Password Remover : Delete all Passwords stored in your Web Browsers

We usually have a habit of saving our passwords in the web browsers to get instant access to all our Internet accounts. This habit has some disadvantages, like say, exposing your passwords to anyone else who uses your computer – […]

How Internet Explorer 11 now stores Passwords

Microsoft recently enumerated the changes it incorporated in Password Policy and Autocomplete Forms in Internet Explorer 11, to reduce the confusion in users about their passwords being recalled on one site but not another. People, although not inclined, have the […]

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