Despite repeated warnings from online security experts advising against the use of easy-to-crack passwords, it seems some many folks still can’t be bothered to think up a more complex string of ...

Security researchers found that they could access the personal information of 64 million people who had applied for a job at McDonald’s, in large part by logging into the company’s AI job hiring ...

Young and old are equally bad at protecting online content with 'password' the third most-used security phrase and the third most common is plain old ‘password’ ...

Ireland. ‘Abdel123’, with a capital A, ‘westwood’ ‘ismellpennys’ and ‘abdel123’ with a small ‘a’ complete the top five.

An estimated 600,000 GPS trackers for monitoring the location of kids, seniors, and pets contain vulnerabilities that open users up to a host of creepy attacks, researchers from security firm Avast ...

Facepalm: Unfortunately but not surprising, people in general tend to be careless when it comes to computer security, especially regarding passwords. Pin it on laziness, difficulty remembering complex ...

If you are using “123456” as your password it is past time to stop. Same if you are using the always popular “Password” to protect your account. Those easy-to-hack passwords were the top and fourth ...

Perhaps you chuckled at the irony of making your password “password.” Or you thought it was the right place to express affection for your favorite primate by choosing “monkey.” More likely, you were ...

SplashData, makers of the SplashID Safe password management software, has just published its list of 25 worst passwords of 2013. Climbing up the list from second to first is "123456", switching places ...

'123456' appeared 221,833 times, solidifying its position as the nation’s most favoured password, unchanged from last year.