Security firm Mandiant has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft’s NTLM.v1 hash ...

Whenever you buy used computers there is a risk that they come with unpleasant surprises that are not of the insect variant. From Apple hardware that is iCloud-locked with the original owner MIA ...

Length does matter (ha), but how you create and manage a password often matters just as much, if not more. A long password that's predictable or reused across accounts can still be cracked, leaked or ...

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 ...

The most famous museum in the world used an incredibly insecure password to protect its video surveillance system. Here's how to learn from the Louvre’s mistakes and improve your own security. I ...

At least one of the thieves remains at large, French prosecutors say. At the time of the brazen heist of $102 million in jewels from the Louvre last month, the password to the world-famous museum's ...

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 ...

SAP aims to displace more general large language models with the release of its own foundational “tabular” model, which the company claims will reduce training requirements for enterprises. The model, ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: I read your “It’s Geek to Me” about lazily using passwords. (Geek Note: I.G.T.M. #951, Oct 12, 2025 and ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Here's a quick weak password tip: You may be using one that's risky. A recent study from the artificial intelligence analytics platform Peec ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...