How a program called Mimikatz became one of the world's most widespread and powerful password stealers.

The company used weak passwords. To recap: Hacking Team creates spyware and malware programs for law enforcement and intelligence agencies around the world, including the US. But data leaked from ...

That hacking highlights that it doesn’t matter if you’re using WordPress, Joomla, phpBB or even hand coding your own CMS. If your password is weak or compromised then your site is under risk.

A federal appeals court affirmed the computer-hacking conviction of a former executive at a recruiting firm accused of using a shared password to steal headhunting leads from the company's ...

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a conviction that considered using a willingly shared password to be covered under the CFAA anti-hacking law.

Passwords are a common target for hackers, but many of us still aren't doing the basics to help protect our accounts. Here's what to do.

Somebody just uploaded a password-hacking tool called iDict to GitHub that promises to use good old fashioned brute force techniques to crack iCloud passwords. The tool also claims to be able to ...