Think you could go nearly a day without any of your saved passwords? That's the pickle millions of Windows users found themselves in last week when their credentials stored in Google Chrome suddenly ...

Facebook on Thursday said it had for years stored millions of user passwords in plain text, a significant oversight for a company that remains in the spotlight for failing to protect users' privacy. A ...

Using a password manager is one of the top safety practices recommended by security experts. Yet only 39 percent of consumers use one, according to a recent Consumer Reports survey. Instead, many ...

Google's password manager is not inherently unsafe, like many other apps and services for managing your logins, but it may ...

Meta has been fined €91M ($101M) after it was discovered that to 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords had been stored in plain text. Some of those passwords had been unprotected since 2012, ...

Google and Apple’s password managers simply don’t work in scenarios like this, and that’s one of the main reasons you shouldn ...

It’s tempting to store your passwords in a browser to make life a bit easier, but it’s a dangerous practice — and UAB offers a safe alternative. Keeper is a free password manager for faculty, staff ...

The FBI has confirmed that 630 million stolen passwords were found on devices belonging to a single hacker. Here's how to ...

MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Facebook says it has fixed a password issue impacting hundreds of millions of platform users. The Menlo Park-based company says it found the problem during a routine security ...

Passwords must be complex and as long as possible so that hackers have no chance of cracking them in a short span of time. However, complicated passwords are easy to forget. Anyone who doesn’t ...

Passwords have been used for thousands of years, as a means of identifying ourselves to others and in more recent times, to computers. It’s a simple concept – a shared piece of information, kept ...