Forty years ago this month, Robert Morris and Ken Thompson published an article in the monthly journal Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery. With those four pages, they created ...

Faith writes guides, how-tos, and roundups on the latest Android games and apps for Android Police. You'll find her writing about the newest free-to-play game to hit Android or discussing her paranoia ...

Google has revealed it had left some business users' passwords exposed in plain text. In a blog post on Tuesday, the tech giant said it had discovered the issue in Google's popular enterprise product, ...

Organizations can store account passwords securely by scrambling them with a cryptographic process known as hashing before saving them to their servers. This way, even if someone compromises those ...

When Apple and Google announced their passwordless login systems earlier this year, they glossed over one major problem: By relying on either company to eliminate passwords, you’re effectively locking ...

The Robinhood stock trading site is alerting users that passwords were stored in their system in human readable format, otherwise known as clear text. While no foul play was detected, this could have ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook left millions of user passwords readable by its employees for years, the company acknowledged Thursday after a security researcher exposed the lapse. By storing passwords in ...

Facebook stored the passwords of hundreds of millions of its users in plain text inside its internal systems, the social media giant has revealed. "As part of a routine security review in January, we ...

The office of Colorado's secretary of state has said partial passwords for voting system components were mistakenly posted on its official website. The passwords, accessible via a hidden tab in a ...

Subscribers to the ReadyNotify app are being urged to change their passwords after the third-party system, which provides ...