Everyone needs a password manager. If you're willing to pay a monthly or annual fee, these options are worth it. Read now In one of the biggest password re-use studies of its kind, an analysis of more ...

For some reason, many web surfers accessing the internet don’t appear to be listening. Despite warnings by experts and countless reports of hacking, identity theft, online fraud, and more, there are ...

People who spend their lives thinking about user experience have a low opinion of passwords. Consider this, people have too many password protected accounts that they log into too many times a day ...

This is not a reprinted mistake: The most commonly used password in 2014 was "123456," a security company says. Despite the high-profile hacking attacks last year, people are still using passwords ...

An annual list of the most commonly used passwords, a source of both humor and sadness to the human race, shows a change at the top for the first time in three years. SplashData, a maker of password ...

Mark Burnett is a security consultant, author, and researcher who specializes in hardening Microsoft Windows-based servers and networks. He is the author of the book Perfect Passwords. This post ...

In wake of last week's security breach that compromised the accounts of over 450,000 Yahoo! users, an IT security firm has used the data to compile a list of the most hacked online passwords. And, not ...

The hacking of Adobe that compromised tens of millions of accounts is no joke, but at least we can enjoy a little dark humor over users’ predictably awful passwords. The passwords were posted by ...

Perhaps you chuckled at the irony of making your password “password.” Or you thought it was the right place to express affection for your favorite primate by choosing “monkey.” More likely, you were ...

Cybersecurity researchers discovered a vulnerability in McHire, McDonald's chatbot job application platform, that exposed the chats of more than 64 million job applications across the United States.

Perhaps you chuckled at the irony of making your password “password.” Or you thought it was the right place to express affection for your favorite primate by choosing “monkey.” More likely, you were ...