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Think about the password you use for your bank account. Now, think about the one for your email. Are they the same? If so, you might be leaving your digital front door wide open. It sounds like a ...

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.

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

You may want to delete a saved password on your Mac if you no longer use the account or don't want to have that password on ...

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 ...

Passwords used by many of Sweden’s cyber elite are now available on the Internet following a hack against the Swedish Computer Society, an organization of IT professionals. Among the victims are a ...

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 ...