Equifax (EFX) used the word “admin” as both password and username for a portal that contained sensitive information, according to a class action lawsuit filed in federal court in the Northern District ...

Apple requests an admin username and password whenever you send a machine in for repair. For obvious reasons, I'm uncomfortable with that, and a search shows I'm not alone. My preferred solution is to ...

Each router has a different set of default factory settings. The default username and password for each router is “admin“. The default IP address for each router is 192.168.1.1 Check the router’s ...

More than four years ago, Alicia Katz Pollock wrote “Five Ways to Reset a Lost Administrator Password” (17 January 2014), and through the vagaries of Google’s search algorithm, it remains our most ...

Hackers began exploiting an authentication bypass vulnerability in SmarterTools' SmarterMail email server and collaboration ...

This week, British music streaming service, Last.fm has fixed a credential leakage issue that revealed admin username and password. The leak had occurred due to a misconfigured PHP Symfony app running ...

I run my Win10 machine on a standard user account, and don't mind entering the admin creds when installing/removing software. But there are certain things I run frequently that require admin access to ...

Equifax has already put 143 million U.S. consumers’ sensitive private data at risk, and now it has a whole new problem on its hands: an online employee portal in Argentina, which could be easily ...