With the holiday season just around the corner, cybercriminals are ramping up their efforts to hack everything from bank accounts to social media profiles. One of the easiest ways they gain access to ...

Ready for the ultimate in password security? You can build your own uncrackable random generator; all you need is a spreadsheet. I walk you through how to do it.

Your password is probably hacker bait. Cybersecurity researchers have discovered that 19 billion passwords are circulating online — and only 6% of these leaked ...

Common words, names, and places are frequently used and easily guessed passwords. "1234" is the most common password, followed by simple variations and "password" itself. State names like Carolina, ...

Attackers don't need AI to crack passwords, they build targeted wordlists from an organization's own public language. This article explains how tools like CeWL turn websites into high-success password ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Whether you love them, like a psychopath, or hate them, like ...

Are your Gmail login credentials amongst the 48 million estimated as exposed in this leak of existing infostealer logs — here ...

Memorize these tips and tricks to create strong passwords and protect your online accounts You already know to avoid using easy-to-guess, common passwords for your ...

123456 is, in the password world, about as lazy as it gets. All passwords are certainly not created equal, and some are way more common – and predictable – than others. Cybersecurity experts are ...

iOS and iPadOS 15.4 make a small but welcome change to the way in which Safari saves login information. As of the third beta release, which rolled out to developers on Tuesday, passwords without user ...