Q: I saw PCWorld’s lists for the best password managers, and your top picks were for cloud-based services. Wouldn’t a locally stored password database be more secure? A: One of our top password ...

Security researchers have discovered what appears to be the largest password leak of all time, containing around 10 billion unique, plain text passwords. The file, titled "rockyou2024.txt," was posted ...

Are your Gmail login credentials amongst the 48 million estimated as exposed in this leak of existing infostealer logs — here ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Updated July 8 with details of concern over the contents of ...

More than 149 million passwords were exposed in an unsecured database, including logins for social media, streaming services, dating apps, and high-risk accounts like banking and crypto platforms.

I’ve been using password managers for a long time, starting with the open-source KeePass in Windows nearly 20 years ago. When I moved back to the Apple world in the late 2000s, I was drawn in by the ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

It’s been a bad few months for password managers — albeit mostly just for LastPass. But after the revelations that LastPass had suffered a major breach, attention is now turning to open-source manager ...

Passwords must be complex and as long as possible so that hackers have no chance of cracking them in a short span of time. However, complicated passwords are easy to forget. Anyone who doesn’t ...

Death and passwords: two things we just can’t avoid. With so much of our lives tied up in cloud services nowadays, there’s good reason to worry about what happens to these accounts if we drop dead ...