Stop me if this sounds familiar: You’re setting up (yet another) online account when you’re prompted to enter a password. Sigh. It’s just easier to go with one ...

NordPass' annual list of the 200 most commonly used passwords finds that many people are leaving their accounts vulnerable to hacking, with '123456' once again taking the top spot. Are you still using ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Change your password. Don't give me that, "Oh, I'll do it later," malarkey. Update your most important accounts now—and please, for the love of all of your files in the cloud, don't change it to ...

One of the most successful forms of password breaches occurs when hackers simply guess commonly used passwords. And while organizations often invest in advanced security measures, they sometimes ...

INDIANAPOLIS — What’s safe today is not safe tomorrow. That’s the mindset that professor of computer and information technology at Purdue University Mustafa Abdallah has about passwords and keeping ...

Learn how you can create and manage passkeys on Windows 11 with Windows Hello for secure, passwordless authentication across your favorite sites.

LOS ANGELES -- A Russian website has published the addresses to more than 5 million Gmail accounts along with a list of passwords. While most of the passwords don't necessarily correspond to the Gmail ...