Most of you still can't do better than 123456? 123456. admin. password. For years, the IT world has been reminding users not ...

If you’re using ‘123456’ as a password for your online accounts, you should change it. Here are other bad passwords of 2025 ...

The latest accounting of passwords exposed to hackers – all 1.3 billion of them – shows the importance of upgrading your ...

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Think your password is safe? Here are the most breached passwords in 2025 and how yours might be at risk. Data-security researchers uncovered over 16 billion co ...

With everything available at the click of a button nowadays, the convenience is undeniable. This ease of access, however, allows cybercriminals to easily prey on internet users, particularly those ...

The largest-ever data breach, which took place this past winter, resulted in the exposure of more than 3.2 billion unique email addresses and passwords. Yep, that’s billions with a ‘b.’ IBM reported ...

SplashData has announced the 2015 edition of its annual “Worst Passwords List” highlighting the insecure password habits of Internet users. “123456” and “password” once again reign supreme as the most ...

It’s more likely that you’ve used a horrible, easily hackable password than you might hope. Nearly 10 percent of people have relied on at least one of the 25 most shamefully guessable passwords on ...

LOS GATOS, Calif. -- Los Gatos-based SplashData is out with its new list of the worst passwords and, yes, they're just as bad as you may think. The company analyzed the 3 million passwords leaked ...

It’s been several years since I have written about password hygeine. I have been hoping that a better security solution would be widely adopted and while I hear rumors in that regard, passwords still ...

For a while now, Blackberry has had in place a list of 106 prohibited passwords that device owners cannot use when setting up their Blackberry ID account. For all of its intents and purposes, the list ...