Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. You only have to look at the number of Forbes cybersecurity ...

The administrator account of your HP laptop regulates most settings on your computer and has access to all other user accounts. In general, it's a good idea to periodically change your password to ...

More than four years ago, Alicia Katz Pollock wrote “Five Ways to Reset a Lost Administrator Password” (17 January 2014), and through the vagaries of Google’s search algorithm, it remains our most ...

Apple requests an admin username and password whenever you send a machine in for repair. For obvious reasons, I'm uncomfortable with that, and a search shows I'm not alone. My preferred solution is to ...