Amazon’s game-streaming service, Twitch, confirmed on Wednesday it was the victim of a massive data breach that potentially exposed troves of company documents and sensitive user data. “We can confirm ...

Wanna know a secret? Whether you're logging into your bank, health insurance, or even your email, most services today do not ...

People are willingly uploading secrets to JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify, where hackers can easily pick them up.

Hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees — in some cases going back to 2012, KrebsOnSecurity has ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the business of cybersecurity. Bill O'Hern, AT&T's SVP and Chief Security Officer, wrote "Forgotten passwords become ...

A social media boosting startup, which bills itself as a service to increase a user’s Instagram followers, has exposed thousands of Instagram account passwords. The company, Social Captain, says it ...

Apple last year updated its iCloud Utility for Windows with a password manager for the first time, so that users can access and manage their passwords stored in iCloud Keychain from a Windows PC. Now ...

Facebook is asking some new users to provide the password to their email account. The move has alarmed security experts, who warn it could encourage users to engage in "risky" behaviour and increase ...

Most people don't use a password manager or two-factor authentication—even people who know it's a good idea—because installing and managing yet another app just sounds exhausting. Well, if you're an ...