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If your idea of a smart password is your first car followed by your mother's name, get with the program. Hackers have recently stung Fox News, Apple, the IMF, Lockheed Martin and Gmail: How can you expect to protect yourself with lazy wordplay? DailyFinance offers this guide.

Keywords, user IDs, account numbers, passwords that must contain both letters and numbers: the list of important login information we are required to remember is overwhelming indeed. Remembering increasingly complex and often-changing password combinations can be extremely difficult -- and for some...

After revealing that its Street View cars have been snooping into unsecured WiFi traffic for years, Google has announced plans for an encrypted version of its search this week.

When you hear about a data breach at a credit card company or a retailer, do you immediately wonder why the company wasn't more careful with the information of the customers? I bet most people do. But as concerned as they are about others protecting their information, many people don't even take...