Be honest with me. How many of your passwords are still some version of your pet’s name followed by a number? Studies have shown that roughly 80% of data breaches involve weak or reused passwords.

UPDATE: May. 6, 2026, 9:40 a.m. EDT This piece was updated to include a statement from Microsoft. Password managers are supposed to make life easier for users by remembering their passwords and ...

The attack on the Trellix source code repository disclosed last week has been claimed by the RansomHouse threat group, which ...

Apps from Apple, Google and others can assist in making your online accounts more secure, even as new ways of logging in ...

A fake Claude code installer can successfully exfiltrate decrypted cookies, passwords and payment methods from Chromium ...

The federal cybersecurity agency left plaintext passwords in a spreadsheet uploaded to a public GitHub repository, per a ...

Google on Wednesday published exploit code for an unfixed vulnerability in its Chromium browser codebase that threatens ...

Thirteen critical vulnerabilities have been found in the vm2 JavaScript sandbox package that could allow an attacker’s code to escape the container and do nasty things to IT environments. As a result, ...

An X user with the handle cprkrn writes that he was locked out of his wallet over 11 years ago because he got stoned, changed his ...

Research from Forrester estimates that every password reset costs around $70. As one of the most common helpdesk requests, many organizations have introduced self-service password reset (SSPR) tools ...

Attackers published a malicious command-line version of the popular open-source password manager to the npm registry and may be behind a spate of recent supply chain attacks. Researchers warn of a new ...

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