When security questions and password hints are required for your accounts, you might not be filling them out wisely. To best protect your account security, you shouldn’t be truthful in these fields.

Picture this: you're chilling during your free time, your favorite beverage in one hand, scrolling through the latest tech updates with the other, when suddenly a friend texts, panicking about a ...

October 4, 2018 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google It’s been a while since I’ve had to type in some stupid answer to a made-up question when creating an account on ...

Online security questions — we have all seen them. We log in to a new bank account, social media site or online paid service, and there they are. We are required to ...

When you select a password, you might choose to store it in a password manager, write it down, or commit it to memory (see “How to remember passwords” for some advice). Sometimes, however, things go ...

MicroStockHub / Getty Images/iStockphoto I get hundreds of emails a week from my readers. I try to answer each and every one of them. But I probably answer the same 10 questions over and over and over ...