For years, I've heard the advice to change my passwords every few months. But is this necessary these days? I've found that the conventional password wisdom is outdated—and might even be making your ...

The challenge for British security leaders is no longer whether NCSC guidance on credential management is sound, but how to ...

Regularly updating passwords on iPhone or Android every three months is usually the norm, but experts caution users regarding its downsides. For years, conventional wisdom dictated the need to ...

Fene Osakwe is one of Africa's most sought-after cybersecurity advisors, best-selling author, global speaker and cyber mentor. Four years ago, while I was the head of IT security in a multinational ...

Passwords are usually the first, and sometimes only, line of defense against online security breaches. Unfortunately, even a strong password can still leave you vulnerable to cybersecurity threats.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Quite the week for Microsoft. Just when its drastic u-turn on Windows ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Senior Technology Editor. He has a BFA in Film & TV from NYU, where he specialized in writing. Jake has been helping people with their technology professionally since ...

Some OpenAI customer data was exfiltrated in a supply chain attack. The attack only affected visitors to OpenAI's API documentation. The damage was minimal yet noteworthy. A supply chain attack occurs ...

Google introduced a feature at its 2025 I/O developer conference that automates the process of changing stolen or weak passwords for users. This new feature warns users if the password they use to log ...

The password problem — weak, reused credentials that are easy to compromise yet hard to remember and manage — plagues users and organizations. But despite technological advances, passwords still guard ...

Fortinet has released security patches for a critical vulnerability in its FortiSwitch devices that can be exploited to change administrator passwords remotely. The company says Daniel Rozeboom of the ...