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Facepalm: A couple of years ago, Kaspersky Lab tested the resilience of hashed passwords against a modern gaming GPU. Now, the Moscow-based security firm has updated its study and found that things ...

UPDATE: May. 6, 2026, 9:40 a.m. EDT This piece was updated to include a statement from Microsoft. Password managers are supposed to make life easier for users by remembering their passwords and ...

Apps from Apple, Google and others can assist in making your online accounts more secure, even as new ways of logging in continue to take off. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer writes about how to ...

A security researcher has discovered that Microsoft Edge will load all your stored passwords into memory in plaintext at startup, making it easy for malware to scrape those passwords. When you ...

A Norwegian researcher has identified an issue with Microsoft Edge’s Password Manager that could be a serious concern for businesses. Tom Jøran Sønstebyseter Rønning found that passwords are being ...

I review privacy tools like hardware security keys, password managers, private messaging apps, and ad-blocking software. I also report on online scams and offer advice to families and individuals ...

North Korean criminals are using phoney Zoom calls to steal people’s personal data, Microsoft has told Metro. The cyber-crooks, called Sapphire Sleet, target Apple computer users and gain a user’s ...

Though Microsoft claimed that storing plaintext passwords in memory was by design, the company has changed the behavior to better protect your passwords.

I probably shouldn't talk about this on World Password Day, but no one really likes remembering passwords, do they? Even if you use a password manager (and you should), changing your credentials after ...

Credit card authentication is a way of verifying that a person attempting a credit card transaction is who they say they are and that they are authorized to use that card.