One of the biggest stories of the year was the leak of 16 billion passwords — credentials now being used in ongoing hack ...

Windows users can protect themselves from falling victim to ongoing “hack your own password” attacks by doing these three ...

Dating website eHarmony last night acknowledged that it too was caught up in the hack that compromised about 6 million LinkedIn passwords. "After investigating reports of compromised passwords, we ...

Tom Burton, a director in KPMG’s cyber security practice, comments on news that a Russian gang has hacked 1.2 billion usernames and passwords belonging to more than 500 million email addresses. He ...

Apple phones are designed to ward off hackers by locking the phone after too many incorrect attempts at entering a passcode. But a team of experts has found a way to bypass this security feature using ...

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If you haven't given your online passwords a spring clean in a while then now is a good time to get things in check. October is officially National Cybersecurity Awareness Month and - although that ...

We all know the feeling of checking your email and seeing an ominous subject line warning that one of your accounts may have been compromised. Yahoo had a massive hack that impacted 1 billion users in ...

It can take less than six hours to hack 90 per cent of passwords, leaving your online identity, personal data, and bank accounts clicks away from any hacker worth their salt. Gone are the halcyon days ...

Millions of iPhone users have added a four-digit security pin code to prevent unauthorised users from accessing their phone, but a new loophole in the latest software now means that anyone can bypass ...

A BUG in Android Lollipop could allows hackers into MILLIONS of smartphones – simply by overloading the password field on the lock-screen. Android Lollipop smartphones can be unlocked with a simple ...