The most famous museum in the world used an incredibly insecure password to protect its video surveillance system. Here's how ...

Time to tighten up your password complexity, dear readers. A deep learning password guessing tool called PassGAN has been found to take less than six minutes to crack your seven-character password, ...

Your passwords aren't just hanging about on a server waiting to be stolen—there's a whole process that goes on behind the scenes to keep them safe. Just make sure ...

Every year the private digital security company NordPass publishes a list of the most popular passwords across 30 countries. And as always, the current list from 2022 also contains shockingly simple ...

Kevin Young, a computer security expert who studies passwords, is nearly at a loss for words. Literally. Young and his colleagues are working to decode some 2.6 ...

While some might say passwords are on the way out, especially with the advent of passkeys that are regarded as a better solution. However, the extinction of the password isn’t a reality yet. Passwords ...

I have bad news for everyone with weak passwords. A hacker can guess your laziest random passwords in the same amount of time it takes to watch a movie. It turns out when you put the most brutally ...

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