As phishing lures go, asking a potential victim of a password hacking attack if they are dead would seem, at least on the surface, to be rather more ridiculous than most. However, the devil is always ...

Having to come up with a password that matches the symbol requirements for every site can be a hassle, but there’s good reason for it. Of course, the more your ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, May 25, 2025: This story, originally published May 23, ...

What would you do, if you could eavesdrop on an ongoing social engineering attack against your LastPass account?

A user with the handle "ObamaCare," who has a history of leaking data such as employee databases sourced from law firms, and data acquired from colleges and casinos, posted on a hacking forum, "Xmas ...

Hacking is hard. Well, sometimes. Other times, you just call up a company’s IT service desk and pretend to be an employee who needs a password reset, an Okta ...

Why it matters: Experts say passwords cannot guarantee online security, yet they remain the primary pillar of most people's digital protection. That is why the recent posting of a database containing ...

Google users are once again being advised to make major changes to how they access their account as ongoing scams become more advanced. According to Forbes, Google suggests users remove password-only ...

While the recent daylight heist that resulted in the loss of tens of millions of dollars' worth of jewels was carried out physically rather than through hacking, the existence of such a weak password ...

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has partnered with Meta to roll out a new security mechanism designed to ...

Securing your computer and network is a lot more complex than setting a trusty password (that isn’t your pet’s name!). There is an entire IT field devoted to testing the security of a system or ...