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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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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An X user claimed Anthropic’s Claude AI helped recover access to a Bitcoin wallet holding 5 BTC worth roughly $400,000. The ...

New York sports fans might want to switch up their passwords. A new study from Duelbits revealed that millions of sports fans across America are at risk of being hacked due to passwords that are ...