Change your password. Don't give me that, "Oh, I'll do it later," malarkey. Update your most important accounts now—and ...

Stop me if this sounds familiar: You’re setting up (yet another) online account when you’re prompted to enter a password. Sigh. It’s just easier to go with one ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Here's a quick weak password tip: You may be using one that's risky. A recent study from the artificial ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

In the vexing pursuit of passwords that are both easy to remember and hard to crack, many people embed clues into their login credentials, choosing for instance, “playstationplaystationdec2014” to ...

Your password may be easier to hack than you realize. New data has revealed the most vulnerable and commonly used passwords that can be easily hacked. According to ...

For the fifth year in a row, password management security company SplashData has scraped password dumps, primarily from hacked sites, and scoured through the data to find the world’s most common ...

We've discussed how using passphrases as passwords can boost your security, but if you've chosen a phrase used in every-day speech, you're not doing yourself—or your data—any favors. According to a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. This article is more than 4 years old. Here's why you probably ...

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 evade ...

Microsoft Word is suitable for creating all manner of documents. But it doesn't matter if you use Microsoft Word to create shopping lists or legal documents, you might want to protect the file from ...