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 ...

The FBI disrupted a massive stolen-password operation, the DOJ confirmed, that defrauded U.S. citizens out of millions.

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The DOJ announced the seizure of a domain and a password database used by a cybercrime group to steal millions of dollars from bank accounts.

Hackers who compiled a database of as many as 350,000 Spotify passwords proceeded to store it on a cloud server … without a password. The breach also offers a reminder of a key principle to apply when ...

Whether you’re fed up with online password managers or just mistrust them, KeePassXC is a great way to securely self-manage your passwords. It doesn’t exactly replicate an online password manager, but ...

Passwords are a staple of both the internet and computing at large. Even as new authentication protocols have emerged—from passkeys to biometrics—most of us use passwords to log into our daily ...

A stolen password database used to facilitate unauthorized bank transfers worth more than $28 million to victims has been ...

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 ...

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