Equifax (EFX) used the word “admin” as both password and username for a portal that contained sensitive information, according to a class action lawsuit filed in federal court in the Northern District ...

More than four years ago, Alicia Katz Pollock wrote “Five Ways to Reset a Lost Administrator Password” (17 January 2014), and through the vagaries of Google’s search algorithm, it remains our most ...

Passwords are necessary for almost everything these days – bank accounts, health portals, social media and streaming services. Keeping track of password after password can be as hard as creating new, ...

In the end, it's all a big guessing game. You create passwords to protect your systems; hackers try to guess the password you created. It's a game that's going on all ...

Security professionals have been telling us for years to change the default passwords on internet-connected smart home devices, but the UK is taking it a step further and mandating a crackdown on the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. The threat here is an obvious one: an attacker with limited ...

“Choose a combination of letters, numbers, special characters and cases.” “Don’t reuse passwords for multiple accounts.” “Set a password that you haven’t used before.” Everyone has seen these types of ...

If you're using the popular open source blogging tool WordPress to power your website, you may be vulnerable to a new web-based attack. If your WordPress admin pages suddenly become sluggish, ...