We make Private Password Generator. 1Password’s generator does some things ours doesn’t, and we say so below. If anything here is out of date, email [email protected] and we’ll fix it. 1Password’s free web generator makes random passwords, memorable word passwords and PIN codes. Inside the paid 1Password app it can also match each website’s password … Read more

We make Private Password Generator. Bitwarden’s generator is a good tool, and we’ve tried to show where it beats ours. If anything here is out of date, email [email protected] and we’ll fix it. Both are free and neither needs an account. Choose Bitwarden if you want your new password saved in an open-source password manager, … Read more

We make Private Password Generator. We’ve tried to be fair to LastPass and link to its own pages for every claim. If something here is out of date, email [email protected] and we’ll fix it. Use the LastPass password generator if you already pay for LastPass. Its app makes a password, saves it to your vault … Read more

Use a pronounceable password of about 10 random syllables, with each syllable capitalized and one number added. It comes out around 90 bits of strength, more than a 12-character random password. It uses only letters and digits, so you never dig through the symbol page of a TV keyboard. You can also read it aloud … Read more

Make your master password a passphrase of 6 to 8 random words, chosen by a generator from a large word list, then turn those words into a picture you can replay in your head. Something like Glacier-Pumpkin-Ledger-Saddle47-Orbit-Tundra-Wobble (an example only, never use a published one). Three rules make it work: Let a generator pick the … Read more

The short answer: if you only follow three cyber security blogs in 2026, make them Krebs on Security (investigations into cybercrime), Troy Hunt (data breaches and passwords) and Schneier on Security (the big-picture thinking on security, privacy and AI). For daily news, add BleepingComputer. For hands-on advice you can use at home, add Malwarebytes Labs. … Read more

Password entropy is a way of counting how many equally likely passwords could have come out of the method you used to make yours. Password entropy is measured in bits, and a password with n bits of entropy is one of 2ⁿ equally likely possibilities, so each extra bit doubles the number of guesses an … Read more