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Dashlane users locked out after brute-force attacks target password manager accounts

Man who lost Bitcoin wallet password while high recovers $400,000 using Claude AI after 11-year lockout

WTF?! It's quite rare that we hear positive stories about AI, but at least one person is thankful for the proliferation of LLMs. A Bitcoin owner who forgot their wallet password 11 years ago just used Claude AI to access their cryptocurrency – all $400,000 worth.

Kaspersky warns that passwords hashed with MD5 algorithm can be cracked in minutes using a GPU

Microsoft Edge stores all your saved passwords unencrypted in memory

Android wants to replace email verification codes with one-tap credentials

Editor's take: Google is once again trying to simplify something that was already fairly easy and convenient. Mountain View's latest target is email-based authentication, which is now dropping the email-checking step altogether thanks to a new Android API update.

AI-generated passwords are surprisingly easy to crack, researchers find

New study finds security gaps in Bitwarden, LastPass, and Dashlane

Hackers are using fake maintenance emails to trick LastPass users

Instagram asked millions to reset passwords, but Meta says it was just a bug

Magician's implanted RFID chip is now useless after he forgets the password

Boomers, Gen X, and Millennials pick better passwords than Gen Z – but they're all still bad

Windows 11 now works with 1Password and Bitwarden passkeys, with more to come

It's nearly 2026 and most people still use '123456' as a password

Louvre heist exposes museum's history of security failings: used 'LOUVRE' as a password, still ran Windows 2000

Facepalm: One would imagine that the Louvre, home of a collection of works worth an estimated $30-50 billion, has one of the best security systems in the world. But following a recent heist at the museum, it's been revealed that its video surveillance system had used the hard-to-guess password 'LOUVRE,' while its automation network used computers running Windows 2000.

HBO Max plans stricter enforcement on password sharing

Dropbox is shutting down its password manager next month – here are the best alternatives

McDonald's AI hiring chatbot exposed data of 64 million applicants with "123456" password

Ditch weak passwords with Bitwarden, our favorite password manager

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.