A new report suggests younger generations may have weaker passwords than their older counterparts. And Canadians are among those using some of the most common passwords in their logins rather than ...

Mr. Conte is the co-founder and chief executive of Patreon. The World Wide Web was introduced some three decades ago. Describing in 2019 the hopes that had been projected onto the internet at its ...

A new study has revealed America’s most common passwords and the results make for concerning reading. It’s more important now than ever before for web users to protect personal information online with ...

Passwords are necessary for almost everything these days – bank accounts, health portals, social media and streaming services. Keeping track of password after password can be as hard as creating new, ...

iOS 26 is packed with big and small changes, only a fraction of which most users have likely discovered. Three of those changes have enabled me to make Apple’s Passwords app my one and only password ...

CompariTech on Thursday released a report detailing the most-used passwords of 2025, which reveals that "123456" is the worst password of the year. More than 7.61 million accounts out of 2 billion ...

Your browser wants to manage your passwords. Maybe it's to make your browsing experience more seamless in the hotly competitive browser wars, or maybe it's a response ...

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It’s been a bad year for password managers. First, Microsoft announced earlier this summer that its popular Microsoft Authenticator app would be discontinuing its password manager feature and would ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. There are plenty of lists of horror passwords. Those that are too ...

Those of you who use Microsoft Authenticator as a password manager will have to find another option, and soon. That's because an upcoming change will pull the plug on the ability to use the ...

Every time we hear about a massive hack or login credential leak, I remind you that you should be using a key piece of software on all your devices to protect your online properties. Password managers ...