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Major alert that YOUR password is no longer safe. Here's how to fix it: Step by step, how to navigate the confusing worl...

Passwords have provided a safe way of securing our digital accounts for decades. But a secret string of letters and numbers is no longer enough to keep your personal information sa...

Pass the key, passwords have passed their sell-by date

NCSC passes judgment: passkeys pass muster, passwords fail The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has officially endorsed passkeys as the default authentication standard, m...

Stop changing weak passwords. Start replacing them with passkeys

As I’ve said before, passwords suck. So do made-up holidays, but World Password Day (which rolls around yearly on May 1) offers as good excuse as any to kick your passwords to the...

8 Best Password Managers for 2026: Why I Recommend Them

When I was a kid, passwords were a fun little game. I’d come up with something silly, like my favorite cartoon character or “12345,” and never think twice about it. Back then, I di...

Killing the Password: How to Add Passkeys to Your Rails 8 App

Very often I see users struggling with the absolute worst part of the internet: Passwords. They…

Best password managers: 6 trustworthy options

People are bad at passwords. Most don’t bother with the unique, complex phrases or character strings that make a good password. Worse, they share weak passwords with others. The...

VPS and password saving

Manage all your logins the smart way with Apple’s free Passwords app

The Apple Passwords app makes it easier than ever to save login details for your apps, switch to passkeys, create shared groups and more. (via Cult of Mac - Your source for the lat...

Never reset your password again with 88% off this award-winning password manager

TL;DR: Never lose your passwords again with 88% off ...

Using the password 'admin123' wasn't as bad as sharing it on Slack

Keeping it simple for the developers can lead to very complex headaches later PWNED  Welcome back to PWNED, the column where we celebrate the people who’ve taught us how not to sec...

I’m a Security Expert. I Don’t Know Any of My Passwords.

NCSC heralds end of passwords for consumers and pushes secure passkeys

UK National Cyber Security Centre is urging consumers to replace passwords and two-factor authentication with passkeys, following a technical study that shows they are more secure...

Engineering secure passkey sync in Microsoft Password Manager

Passkeys are designed to replace passwords with strong, phishing-resistant credentials that make sign-in quick, easy, and secure. With M The post Engineering secure passkey sync in...

Microsoft Edge stores your passwords in plaintext RAM… on purpose

If you tend to save your passwords in your browser, you need to be more careful. A security researcher from Norway has uncovered a serious vulnerability in Microsoft Edge that show...

Most data breaches start with a stolen password. Here’s how to fix that

Somewhere in your organisation right now, an employee is reusing a password they created in 2019. Another is sharing login credentials for a team account through a Slack DM. A thir...

Fixing the password problem is as easy as 123456

How come it’s still possible to ‘secure’ an online account with a six-digit string?

Attackers spill plaintext passwords of 46k Myspace93 users after 2021 breach

Leakage blamed on treacherous friends exposed unencrypted credentials, email addresses

Hungarian government creds left in the safe hands of 'FrankLampard'

Nearly 800 state logins surfaced in breach data, including defense and NATO-linked accounts Hungary's government has discovered the hard way that the biggest threat to national sec...

America's top cyber-defense agency left a GitHub repo open with with passwords, keys, tokens – and incredibly obvious fi...

I wonder what's in 'external-secret-repo-creds.yaml' and 'AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv'?

ANTS hacked - data leak

What I have done, although they say you don’t need to take any action, is to immediately change passwords on any accounts that use similar passwords including ANTS.

ANTS hacked - data leak

What I have done, although they say you don’t need to take any action, is to immediately change passwords on any accounts that use similar passwords including ANTS.

World Password Day 2026: Industry Experts Weigh In on the Future of Authentication, Passkeys, and Password Security

Every year on the first Thursday of May, World Password Day serves as a timely reminder that the way we

Passkeys vs Passwords: Why Cyber Experts Say It’s Time to Switch

The National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), part of GCHQ, has advised the public and businesses to stop relying on passwords where passkeys are available. In updated advice released...