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.

If you don’t count hackers, phishers and pirates, most computer users hate passwords. Tech giants have been predicting the death of passwords since 2004 when Bill Gates foretold of their ...

Computer security just lost one of its founders. Fernando "Corby" Corbato, credited with inventing the computer password, has died at the age of 93. The MIT researcher devised the concept of ...

After hearing the story of a computer password standing in the way of a $220 million fortune, we spoke with an expert for tips on how to create unique yet easy-to-remember passwords.

The "Biometric Pressure Grip" is a sensor that measures how hard and how tightly someone holds a mouse, then uses that information as part of a multi-step login process.

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 ...

This password was a painful one to type during that month, but doing it helped me to yell at myself in my mind, as I typed that statement. It motivated me to follow my monthly goal. One month ...

Jake’s a computer science major, and he announced that the best way to choose a password is to pick any three random words out of the dictionary and string them together. (He said this proved it ...

Smart Mouse: Using Your Grip As Your Computer Password. October 13, 2014 / 9:00 AM EDT / CBS New York This article is supplied by Raytheon. The idea dawned on Glenn Kaufman one day in the lab.