Seemingly complex strings are actually highly predictable, crackable within hours Generative AI tools are surprisingly poor at suggesting strong passwords, experts say.… AI security company Irregular ...

However, new research suggests people are turning to artificial intelligence chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s Gemini to generate ‘strong’ passwords for them.

All eight of the top password managers have adopted the term “zero knowledge” to describe the complex encryption system they use to protect the data vaults that users store on their servers. The ...

Leaked API keys are nothing new, but the scale of the problem in front-end code has been largely a mystery - until now. Intruder's research team built a new secrets detection method and scanned 5 ...

Academic study finds 25 attack methods in major cloud password managers exposing vault, recovery, and encryption design risks.

Have you ever had Apple Passwords generate a new password that didn’t end up being saved correctly? Sometimes a website crashes at the wrong moment, or uses protocols that don’t exactly play nice with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Updated January 25 with even more analysis of the publicly ...

This “dream wish list for criminals” includes millions of Gmail, Facebook, banking logins, and more. The researcher who discovered it suspects they were collected using infostealing malware. The ...

Has your phone been prompting you for months to log into certain sites with a "passkey"? Security writer Kim Key of PC Mag explains why you might want to ditch your passwords in favor of passkeys. For ...

‘123456’ continues to reign supreme as the most commonly-used password among people across the world, according to two reports, from NordPass and Comparitech, respectively. A full 25 percent of the ...