Q: I saw PCWorld’s lists for the best password managers, and your top picks were for cloud-based services. Wouldn’t a locally stored password database be more secure? A: One of our top password ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David John Marotta is a financial advisor covering financial planning. In 2022, LastPass disclosed a breach of the data in their ...

Experts are concerned that Microsoft’s new Local Administrator Password Solution only partially addresses the problem of identical passwords on computers in a domain. Microsoft’s release last week of ...

Protect domain-joined computer passwords with Windows’ Local Administrator Password Solution Your email has been sent Windows finally includes a tool to manage ...

Choose to set up Windows 10 or 11 with a local account, and you're required to select three security questions to answer if you ever get locked out. Those questions include the typical ones, such as ...

Windows administrators have a problem — passwords. Specifically, administrator passwords that lurk out there, identical across machines, just ready to be compromised. But there is finally a solution ...

Editorial Note: We earn a commission from partner links on Forbes Advisor. Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. Password managers are widely regarded as safe. If anything, ...