Researchers cannot yet confirm how many records are duplicates or how many unique people were affected. The database is no longer publicly exposed, but reused passwords may still put accounts at risk.

Proton Pass and Bitwarden don’t appear on our list of the best password managers of 2026. This doesn’t mean they aren’t great options. Bitwarden received an honorable mention for how it stores and ...

Abstract: In recent years, numerous incidents involving the leakage of website accounts and text passwords (referred to as “passwords”) have raised significant concerns regarding the potential ...

A threat actor targeting Microsoft 365 and Azure production environments is stealing data in attacks that abuse legitimate applications and administration features. Microsoft tracks the actor as Storm ...

When most people imagine a cyberattack, they’re thinking of complex algorithms that infect a device to steal information or perform malicious tasks. While that’s true for some types of attacks, brute ...

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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 ...

Random numbers are very important to us in this computer age, being used for all sorts of security and cryptographic tasks. [Theory to Thing] recently built a device to generate random numbers using ...

Abstract: The rapid rise of mobile banking services has made cybersecurity weaknesses more extensive in Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP) systems whose protection is, in essence, based on the ...

An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence. Save this story Save this story Even the smartest artificial intelligence ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...