Website password strength meters, like a spouse asked to assess your haircut or outfit, often tell you only what you want to hear. That’s the finding from researchers at Concordia University in ...

But according to Mark Stockley at Naked Security, password strength meters have pretty much stayed the same. Last March, Stockley tested five popular password strength meters and they all failed.

Password strength meters that offer web surfers a visual gauge of how weak or strong a chosen lock may be are increasingly present on websites – but how effective are they at getting folks to choose ...

If you’ve ever made an online account, then you’ve come across a password strength meter—that little thing that encourages you to add a little more complexity to your credentials. And, if ...

According to a series of tests, a number of password security meters fail to identify passwords that are susceptible to cracking.

Research on password strength testers concludes that for important accounts, strength meters force users to create strong passwords; not so for unimportant.

The password meters used in the study and offered on many sites suffer from the same type of weakness, but there's no reason they can't be drastically improved—for instance, by banning the one ...

New research exposes the weakness of password strength meters, and shows consumers should remain skeptical when the bar turns green in order to create strong passwords.