Given all the cybercrime over the last several years, you can pretty much guarantee that your password has been compromised. If you want to check, head over to Troy Hunt’s HaveIBeenPwned site and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, May 25, 2025: This story, originally published May 23, ...

One of the most successful forms of password breaches occurs when hackers simply guess commonly used passwords. And while organizations often invest in advanced security measures, they sometimes ...

If your organization is like many, your employees may be relying on weak or easily guessable passwords — and inadvertently rolling out the red carpet for hackers and cybercriminals in the process. So ...

There are some golden rules that you need to follow BRITS have been warned to change their dangerously hackable passwords as soon as possible. Security experts have revealed a list of the most common ...

Every year, security-focused companies like SplashData release lists of the year's most hacked passwords, inevitably prompting us to ask, "Why would you make your password password?" In 2017, the most ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, Jan. 22, 2025: This story, originally published Jan.

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...