The most famous museum in the world used an incredibly insecure password to protect its video surveillance system. Here's how to learn from the Louvre’s mistakes and improve your own security. I ...

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 ...

Logging in as the root user should never be done on Linux. Using the root account could lead to disaster. Sudo is the preferred method of gaining elevated privileges. When I first started using Linux ...

A massive online leak has exposed more than 183 million stolen email passwords gathered from years of malware infections, phishing campaigns and older data breaches. Cybersecurity experts say it is ...

I reported on a data leak earlier this year that included a whopping 184,162,718 passwords and logins affecting the likes of Apple, Facebook and Instagram users. That data leak was disclosed on May 22 ...

Your Apple Account is the key to everything you do on your iPhone, iPad, MacBook, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro. It keeps your purchases, subscriptions and personal data secure. If you think your ...

Password is one of the sign-in methods for your Microsoft account. If you forget your password, you can use alternative methods to sign in or reset your account password. Some users attempted to reset ...

Recovering your Microsoft account password is easy. However, things can be challenging if you have forgotten your email address or username. You only have limited ways to find out your email address ...

Cisco has removed a backdoor account from its Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), which would have allowed remote attackers to log in to unpatched devices with root privileges. Cisco Unified ...

Do you receive login security codes for your online accounts via text message? These are the six- or seven-digit numbers sent via SMS that you need to enter along with your password when trying to ...

The “destroyed data” included the company’s app code as well as user data in the form of names, mailing addresses and payment details, on its servers The incident came to light on May 26 after ...

Your password is probably hacker bait. Cybersecurity researchers have discovered that 19 billion passwords are circulating online — and only 6% of these leaked ...