Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison discovered a large number of websites store sensitive information in plain text.

Has your phone been prompting you for months to log into certain sites with a "passkey"? Security writer Kim Key of PC Mag explains why you might want to ditch your passwords in favor of passkeys. For ...

Security firm Mandiant has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft’s NTLM.v1 hash algorithm to be hacked in an attempt to nudge users who continue using the ...

For years, I've been told the same thing: Make your passwords longer. Add more characters, throw in symbols, mix uppercase and lowercase letters and you'll be safer online. But as password attacks get ...

If your password is admin, you’re not alone, but you should be worried. NordPass released its seventh annual report on the world’s most common passwords, and the results show we still make it ...

Can you remember all your passwords off the top of your head? If so, you probably have too few of them – or, heaven forbid, only one that you use everywhere. But that problem could become a thing of ...

For over 30 years, logging into websites has worked the same way. You create a password, the website saves it, and you both cross your fingers it never gets stolen ...

For the last seven years, NordPass has compiled an annual list of the Top 200 Most Common Passwords. The 2025 edition revealed that despite many, many warnings, people have not gotten any better at ...

The EU's NIS2 Directive is pushing organizations to take cybersecurity seriously, and that means looking closely at how you manage access. If you're responsible for security in a company that falls ...

Have I Been Pwned is a website that tracks which services have lost user data, with millions of passwords in the database that continually grows as additional breaches occur. So it comes as no ...

A dataset of 2 billion email addresses and 1.3 billion passwords have been discovered online — leaving millions of people vulnerable to account takeovers. The dataset, compiled by security ...