Given all the cybercrime over the last several years, you can pretty much guarantee that your password has been compromised. If you want to check, head over to Troy Hunt’s HaveIBeenPwned site and ...

Every year, security-focused companies like SplashData release lists of the year's most hacked passwords, inevitably prompting us to ask, "Why would you make your password password?" In 2017, the most ...

Change your password. Don't give me that, "Oh, I'll do it later," malarkey. Update your most important accounts now—and ...

PassGAN is a shortened combination of the words “Password” and “generative adversarial networks.” PassGAN is an approach that debuted in 2017. It uses machine learning algorithms running on a neural ...

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 ...

'123456' holds the top spot since 2013. — -- If you're punching in ridiculously weak passwords like 123456, then you could be the answer to every hacker's dream. This is the fourth year that ...

NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – People who use '12345' as their password to any online accounts may as well hand their information over to strangers. Password manager service "Splashdata" released its ...

Microsoft admits that Word's password-protection feature can be easily bypassed, but argues it was never intended to ensure security. Microsoft has hit back at critics of Word's password-protect ...

One of the most successful forms of password breaches occurs when hackers simply guess commonly used passwords. And while organizations often invest in advanced security measures, they sometimes ...

Mary Lynn Reed currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA). IDA is a nonprofit corporation that operates three Federally Funded Research and Development ...