Change your password. Don't give me that, "Oh, I'll do it later," malarkey. Update your most important accounts now—and ...

Given all the cybercrime over the last several years, you can pretty much guarantee that your password has been compromised. If you want to check, head over to Troy Hunt’s HaveIBeenPwned site and ...

If you’re using ‘123456’ as a password for your online accounts, you should change it. Here are other bad passwords of 2025 ...

Every year, security-focused companies like SplashData release lists of the year's most hacked passwords, inevitably prompting us to ask, "Why would you make your password password?" In 2017, the most ...

Stop me if this sounds familiar: You’re setting up (yet another) online account when you’re prompted to enter a password. Sigh. It’s just easier to go with one ...

NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – People who use '12345' as their password to any online accounts may as well hand their information over to strangers. Password manager service "Splashdata" released its ...

'123456' holds the top spot since 2013. — -- If you're punching in ridiculously weak passwords like 123456, then you could be the answer to every hacker's dream. This is the fourth year that ...

In the vexing pursuit of passwords that are both easy to remember and hard to crack, many people embed clues into their login credentials, choosing for instance, “playstationplaystationdec2014” to ...

Creating enforceable, common-sense password policies has become increasingly critical in today’s business world. One major variable in that equation is terminology. While some words (or strings of ...

For the fifth year in a row, password management security company SplashData has scraped password dumps, primarily from hacked sites, and scoured through the data to find the world’s most common ...

Chispea explains her password creation method: If the clue is "Lasagna shindig," the first word reminds me of the root "garfield." If my standard letter replacement is a=4, e=3, and i=!, the root ...