A hacker has published today a list of plaintext usernames and passwords, along with IP addresses for more than 900 Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers. Also: The best VPNs in 2020 ZDNet, which ...

If you’re using ‘123456’ as a password for your online accounts, you should change it. Here are other bad passwords of 2025 ...

The latest accounting of passwords exposed to hackers – all 1.3 billion of them – shows the importance of upgrading your ...

123456 is, in the password world, about as lazy as it gets. All passwords are certainly not created equal, and some are way more common – and predictable – than others. Cybersecurity experts are ...

Our usernames and passwords, to all kinds of websites, are for sale on the dark web. Some, like bank account passwords, are obviously valuable.... Take A Peek Inside The Market For Stolen Usernames ...

Apple login credentials were among a massive database of 184 million records found sitting unprotected on a web server. Other logins included Facebook, Google, Instagram, Microsoft, and PayPal. The ...

Lists containing tens of thousands of stolen email account usernames and passwords have shown up online during the past few days in what researchers say likely came out of multiple phishing attacks.

For the latest study, Comparitech researchers aggregated more than 2 billion account passwords that were leaked to data ...

I could use a big DB of MD5 hashes and passwords, just to show how useless MD5 is*. Where I work all our systems use MD5 and DES for "encryption" (whoever wrote the code -- dozens of people -- didn't ...

With access to the credentials stored in your password manager, threat actors could hijack your accounts to commit identity ...

Researchers at Rapid7 have looked at the security of admin passwords used to protect the two main protocols for remotely accessing corporate networks – and the results aren't great. The two protocols ...

Attila covers software, apps and services, with a focus on virtual private networks. He's an advocate for digital privacy and has been quoted in online publications like Computer Weekly, The Guardian, ...