Password reuse is a difficult vulnerability for IT teams to get full visibility over. The danger is often hidden until it turns up in the form of hackers using compromised credentials as an initial ...

Passwords have long been used as the primary gatekeepers of digital security, yet they can also be a weak link in the chain. According to IBM’s 2023 Cost of a Breach report, phishing (16%) and stolen ...

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 ...

Your password may be easier to hack than you realize. New data has revealed the most vulnerable and commonly used passwords that can be easily hacked. According to ...

How do so many people get hacked? Apparently, many of them don't give much thought to choosing their passwords, both for ...

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 ...

In today’s digital world, your password is your first line of defense. Yet, millions of people still rely on weak, easily guessed passwords like "123456" or "password", leaving their accounts wide ...

Passwords — we all use them, and I think we can agree they are a pain in the neck. VPN company NordPass, in conjunction with NordStellar, has published its sixth annual list of the Top 200 Most Common ...

I just tried to log on to my debian (woody) box via ssh, and the password for my regular user didn't work. I had to log in as root directly and reset the password for my user.<br><br>I'm positive I ...

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 ...

NordPass' list of the year's most common passwords includes the usual suspects. These are the codes to avoid as you go into 2023. My title is Senior Features Writer, which is a license to write about ...

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 ...