Change your password. Don't give me that, "Oh, I'll do it later," malarkey. Update your most important accounts now—and please, for the love of all of your files in the cloud, don't change it to ...

How do so many people get hacked? Apparently, many of them don't give much thought to choosing their passwords, both for ...

Cybercriminals use a variety of tactics to try to determine your passwords. And too many people make the effort easier by using weak and simple ones. A new study from Dojo on the most hacked passwords ...

In a familiar tale of cybersecurity, the annual list of the most common passwords has been unveiled by NordPass, and to no one's surprise, favorites like "123456" and "password" continue to dominate.

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...