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Brother printer hack puts thousands of users at risk of remote takeover

Are 16 billion compromised passwords really part of a newly discovered data breach?

Asus urges factory resets and strong passwords following botnet breach

These are the most common PINs you should absolutely avoid using

GeForce RTX 5090 cracks passwords up to twice as fast as the RTX 4090

US Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard reused the same weak password across Gmail, Dropbox, and LinkedIn

Facepalm: Studies show that most people still reuse weak passwords across multiple accounts despite years of warnings from cybersecurity experts against the practice. Recent leaks reveal that poor password discipline even occurs at the upper levels of the United States government.

Windows Remote Desktop Protocol contains a login backdoor Microsoft refuses to fix

WTF?! The proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft to facilitate remote connections to Windows machines contains an outstanding security flaw. However, Microsoft has stated that it has no plans to fix the issue, as doing so would break compatibility with many applications.

After studying 19 billion passwords, one big problem: Over 90% are terrible

TL;DR: A new study analyzing more than 19 billion passwords from relatively recent data breaches between April 2024 and 2025 has found that the vast majority are weak. Alarmingly, only six percent of the leaked passwords were unique, leading researchers to describe a widespread epidemic of weak password reuse.

Dozens of apartment buildings at risk due to a single default password

Passkeys reach 15 billion accounts but fall short of expectations so far

Easy to guess, hard to believe: America's most common passwords

Hacked TP-Link routers at center of massive botnet used to attack Azure customers

Europe fines Meta $106 million for storing user passwords in plaintext

NIST standards proposal looks to retire outdated requirements like mandatory password resets

Novel phishing attack uses "no-escape" kiosk mode in Chrome to extract passwords

Newly discovered flaw makes some YubiKeys vulnerable to cloning

What is the most commonly used password?

Can you manage your passwords? Survey shows many feel overwhelmed yet overconfident about it

Google apologizes after 15 million Chrome users lost access to their passwords

A record 10 billion passwords were just posted to a popular hacking forum

Apple set to launch Passwords app, taking on LastPass and 1Password

Google says passkeys are now used by over 400 million accounts, and over a billion sign-ins

Nvidia RTX 4090 can crack complex 8-character passwords in minutes