There are many ways to fortify your online security, and the main way to do so is to have strong passwords for all websites or servers that might contain sensitive information about you. But despite ...

Slack has reset the passwords of thousands of accounts after receiving new information about a hack that took place in March 2015. Slack, which has been widely adopted in workplaces, is a chat ...

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Despite all of the data breaches and scams that have proliferated over the last few years, we sure love our bad passwords. For the fifth year in a row, “123456” and “password” topped password manager ...

Thanks to a listing of common passwords provided this week by Splashdata, we now all know that using the numbers "123456" or the word "password" as a gateway into your computer might not be so ideal.

The most common password of last year is "123456," which sadly probably isn't a surprise considering statistically there's a good chance that's your password.

Every year, digital security company SplashData releases its list of the most popular — and thus, easiest to guess — passwords. They comb through all of the passwords that were leaked that year, two ...

Security provider SplashData has released its annual “Worst Password List” for 2015, and the results are as depressing – and predictable – as ever. While last year’s entries boast some of the longest ...

Even with people continually being told they shouldn’t use weak passwords or reuse them across sites it’s still happening, according to SplashData and the 2015 edition of its annual Worst Passwords ...