An analysis of over 1 billion credentials leaked due to hacking and other damage reveals that many people are using weak passwords. GitHub-FlameOfIgnis/Pwdb-Public: A ...

In wake of last week's security breach that compromised the accounts of over 450,000 Yahoo! users, an IT security firm has used the data to compile a list of the most hacked online passwords. And, not ...

If you are using “123456” as your password it is past time to stop. Same if you are using the always popular “Password” to protect your account. Those easy-to-hack passwords were the top and fourth ...

Let’s be honest: How many times have you used something like "123456" or "123123" as your password? With so many online accounts to juggle, it’s tempting to go for simple passwords, even though we ...

It's something that we're all regularly warned about, but it seems that many people are still using passwords that are very easy to guess. New research has revealed that phrases including '123456', ...

It's official: People are dreadful at picking passwords. The world's most popular password is the disappointingly easy-to-guess 123456, according to a massive analysis of 10 million leaked passwords.

With cyberattacks resulting in hundreds of millions of leaked records and over $1 billion stolen in 2015, you might think people are starting to get wise about online security. And you would be wrong.

Adobe’s security breach laid bare 38 million passwords to the world - and a security researcher claims that 1.9 million of these are the simple “123456”. Half a million craftier customers chose ...

Mark Burnett is a security consultant, author, and researcher who specializes in hardening Microsoft Windows-based servers and networks. He is the author of the book Perfect Passwords. This post ...

The hacking of Adobe that compromised tens of millions of accounts is no joke, but at least we can enjoy a little dark humor over users’ predictably awful passwords. The passwords were posted by ...

In spite of everything—the leaks, the breaches, the myriad privacy risks—a large majority of people are still using “password” and “123456” as their password. Folks, it’s long past time to stop taking ...

Perhaps you chuckled at the irony of making your password “password.” Or you thought it was the right place to express affection for your favorite primate by choosing “monkey.” More likely, you were ...