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.

If a website tells you to manually install a “Windows update” from a big blue download button, close that tab immediately. Malwarebytes has just spotted a fake Microsoft support website ...

After the CopyFail vulnerability gave root access from any user on almost all distributions last week, this week we’ve got DirtyFrag. This chains the vulnerability in CopyFail (xfrm-ESP) and ...

ESET researchers have investigated an ongoing attack by the ScarCruft APT group that targets the Yanbian region via ...

Stop using bloated tools—these 5 tiny open-source apps quietly solve problems nobody else bothers to fix and do more with ...

Thinking about how to build a banking app? It’s a big project, for sure. People expect their banks to be right there on their ...

Microsoft Edge loads all your saved passwords, decrypted and in plaintext, into memory at startup. Google Chrome doesn’t—is ...

A security researcher found that Edge stores your plaintext passwords in memory when you use the browser to manage them. In a ...

Our '7 Days' weekly tech roundup brings the juiciest announcements. Read about Edge browser handling passwords in plaintext, JDownloader getting hacked, and the TAB key.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. Among the new features, Apple’s Passwords app streamlines log in and ...

Just in time for World Password Day, Kaspersky is reminding everyone that outdated hashing algorithms such as MD5 remain among the worst choices for storing passwords.