Most of us have a long list of usernames and passwords to sign into accounts online - eBay, Amazon, Expedia. Those credentials are valuable to hackers, and they're for sale online. Stacey Vanek Smith ...

Hundreds of millions of internet users continue to put themselves at risk of having their accounts hacked by using incredibly simple and commonly used passwords which can easily be guessed by cyber ...

Avoiding the password ‘password’ might seem obvious if you want to protect your accounts from being hacked. But new research from NordPass suggests it’s the most used password in the UK this year, ...

A hacker has published today a list of plaintext usernames and passwords, along with IP addresses for more than 900 Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers. Also: The best VPNs in 2020 ZDNet, which ...

For the latest study, Comparitech researchers aggregated more than 2 billion account passwords that were leaked to data ...

A security consultant has published 10 million passwords along with their corresponding usernames in a move he characterized as both necessary and legally risky given a legal landscape he said ...

Racking your brains to come up with a strong password can be a pain. But if you want your emails, online banking, streaming platform credentials secure from the clutches of hackers, it would be wise ...

A massive data leak has exposed more than 183 million email passwords for Gmail and other web services over the past several ...

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 ...