This is a free service that shows whether your online accounts have likely been 'pwned,' or compromised in a data breach.

This week Microsoft Authenticator shuttered and Dropbox Passwords announced it would begin closing down. More and more services are heading in the direction of passkeys as passwords have become ...

Cybersecurity experts warn about one of the largest credential compilations ever found, urging users to check "Have I Been ...

To make them easier to memorize, you might try using the concept of a "pass-sentence," as Edward Snowden suggests. A password ...

Many of us know this, or at least it's something that's in the backs of our minds as we post updates to Facebook, share photos on Instagram, detail little insights into our daily lives on Twitter, and ...

OS 26 has a convenient new Apple Passwords feature that I’ve found myself needing periodically over the past year since the app launched.

I’m so bad at remembering them that even Google doesn’t trust me anymore. Due to my status as a “forgot your password?” power-user, my last fail resulted in a two-to-five-day lockout as they launched ...

Myspace may be so 2006, but something that happened three years ago may be coming back to haunt hundreds of millions of users now. That's because the formerly popular social media site was hacked, not ...

Q: After keeping track of my passwords without any kind of program for several years, I started using LastPass a month ago. If my laptop is stolen and the laptop’s PIN is figured out, it seems like ...

I could use a big DB of MD5 hashes and passwords, just to show how useless MD5 is*. Where I work all our systems use MD5 and DES for "encryption" (whoever wrote the code -- dozens of people -- didn't ...

Last month, Zoom joined a long list of companies whose user data has fallen prey to hackers. More than half a million account logins for the hugely popular video conferencing platform were discovered ...