UPDATE FROM AUTHOR: As noted by several commenters this post focuses on brute force; I will discuss the rainbow table issue at length in next month's column. About a month ago, I was walking through ...

CompariTech on Thursday released a report detailing the most-used passwords of 2025, which reveals that "123456" is the worst password of the year. More than 7.61 million accounts out of 2 billion ...

Passwords are not always the best security measures in today's webscape. They're difficult to create and manage, and all too easy to compromise. This is because most passwords follow predictable ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, thieves exploited a weakness in SS7, a telephony routing protocol, to steal passwords to online bank accounts in Germany. The attackers were able to access two-factor authenticated ...

One of the security recommendations we give frequently is to have strong, unique passwords for each of your online accounts and a new table of password data from the cybersecurity firm Hive Systems ...

Every time we hear about a massive hack or login credential leak, I remind you that you should be using a key piece of software on all your devices to protect your online properties. Password managers ...

Facebook users who log in to the social network and Adobe accounts with the same username-password combination are being required to change their Facebook passwords ...

People tend to use passwords to protect their Excel files for numerous reasons. For example, if you are having sensitive data with regards to your business in an Excel file, you need to password ...