There are many ways to fortify your online security, and the main way to do so is to have strong passwords for all websites or servers that might contain sensitive information about you. But despite ...

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Look on the bright side! There’s one good thing that comes out of all those website breaches every year: Security researchers get to comb through all those lists of usernames and passwords to remind ...

Slack has reset the passwords of thousands of accounts after receiving new information about a hack that took place in March 2015. Slack, which has been widely adopted in workplaces, is a chat ...

When it comes to making up passwords, we’re not doing so great as a society. Password management firm SplashData released its annual "Worst Passwords List," revealing that humans have remained rather ...

When it comes to passwords, longer doesn’t necessarily mean better. That was apparent on Tuesday, when SplashData released its fifth annual “Worst Passwords” list. “123456” and “password” remained at ...

Security provider SplashData has released its annual “Worst Password List” for 2015, and the results are as depressing – and predictable – as ever. While last year’s entries boast some of the longest ...

Thanks to a listing of common passwords provided this week by Splashdata, we now all know that using the numbers "123456" or the word "password" as a gateway into your computer might not be so ideal.

The most common password of last year is "123456," which sadly probably isn't a surprise considering statistically there's a good chance that's your password.

Every year, digital security company SplashData releases its list of the most popular — and thus, easiest to guess — passwords. They comb through all of the passwords that were leaked that year, two ...

Even with people continually being told they shouldn’t use weak passwords or reuse them across sites it’s still happening, according to SplashData and the 2015 edition of its annual Worst Passwords ...