BGR

Is Google's Password Manager Actually Safe To Use?

Password managers alleviate the pressure of creating strong, unique passwords for each account or service you sign up for. When a website asks you for the tenth time to make an account, you likely end ...
TechSpot

It's nearly 2026 and most people still use '123456' as a password

Facepalm: It's almost 2026 and the world's population has never been so tech-savvy. When it comes to passwords, however, a lot of people are stuck in the 1990s. Another study examining the most common ...
BGR

The Worst Password Of 2025 Is '123456' - Make Sure You Don't Use These

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 ...
Wired

Your Browser’s Password Manager Is Better Than Ever. You Still Shouldn’t Use It

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 ...
IEEE

ROBENS: A Robust Ensemble System for Password Strength Classification

Abstract: Weak passwords create vulnerabilities that attackers exploit through password-guessing techniques. This weakness arises from predictable patterns that users often employ when creating ...
Wired

How to Use a Password Manager to Share Your Logins After You Die

It’s not fun to talk about, but there’s only one thing certain in life. You need to have a plan for your digital legacy, just like you make a plan for your physical assets; otherwise, your accounts, ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

How to Use a Password Audit to Improve Your Cybersecurity

For decades, organizations have wrestled with striking the right balance between strong cybersecurity and low user friction. Security tools are only effective if employees can easily adopt and use ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

New smart meter couldn’t read Mass. man’s electricity use

STORY. WE’LL BRING YOU MORE UPDATES AS IT DEVELOPS. ALL RIGHT. IT’S BEEN A HOT AND EXPENSIVE SUMMER FOR ELECTRICITY CUSTOMERS ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS, AS MANY HAVE FACED SURGING BILLS THANKS TO THE HOT ...
CBSSports.com

Explaining the College Football Playoff's new strength of schedule metric -- and the SEC's campaign behind it

The College Football Playoff announced that it will use an "enhanced" tool to further emphasize strength of schedule in its selection process, starting in 2025. The new metric -- titled record ...
Business Wire

Password Party’s Over: Nearly 50% of Americans Continue to Re-use Passwords Despite Phishing Attacks on the Rise

STOCKHOLM & SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new survey from Yubico (NASDAQ STOCKHOLM: YUBICO), a modern cybersecurity company on a mission to make the internet safer for everyone, today ...
Android Authority

5 password managers you should use instead of LastPass

There was a time when LastPass was THE password manager everyone should be using. That statement still stands, but with one small twist: LastPass is now the number one password manager everyone should ...