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A new study reveals Texas residents often use simple passwords like '123456' and 'qwerty', putting them at risk of hacking.

Editorial Note: We earn a commission from partner links on Forbes Advisor. Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. Strong passwords are necessary in today’s digital ...

When engineer Bill Burr from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wrote in 2003 what would soon become the world’s gold standard for password security, he advised people and ...

Days after M&T Bank transitioned former People’s United Bank customers onto its systems some people were still struggling to gain access to their accounts, in part due to a technical issue resulting ...

In celebration of the release of Jordan Peele’s Nope, Keke Palmer and Brandon Perea play a special edition of the new NBC game show, Password. During the clip, Palmer and Perea go back and forth with ...

The most famous museum in the world used an incredibly insecure password to protect its video surveillance system. Here's how ...