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One of the biggest stories of the year was the leak of 16 billion passwords — credentials now being used in ongoing hack ...

Your personal data is collected by almost every site or app you visit. The world is more data hungry than ever because it's now the most important asset, even more valuable than oil. Your shopping ...

More than 184 million passwords may have been compromised in a massive data leak affecting everything from social media logins to bank accounts, according to a new report published by cybersecurity ...

For all of us who hate passwords, passkeys represent a simpler and safer way of authenticating online accounts. But adoption has been slow, with many companies and websites still relying on passwords.

This week, researchers from Cybernews have sounded the alarm on one of the largest data breaches in history, with over 16 billion login credentials exposed online. Although companies like Apple, ...

Meta is now starting to roll out support for passkeys to all Facebook users on Android and IOS. Passkeys are a password-free authentication standard that is stored locally on your device, be it a ...

The issues keep piling up for Facebook. Photo: Ste Smith/Cult of Mac It’s time to change your Facebook and Instagram passwords again. Facebook revealed today that it unknowingly stored hundreds of ...

Meta has been fined €91M ($101M) after it was discovered that to 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords had been stored in plain text. Some of those passwords had been unprotected since 2012, ...

Data breaches are no longer rare events but a persistent problem. We’ve been seeing regular incidents at public-facing companies across various sectors, including healthcare, retail and finance. While ...

GitHub is adopting Facebook’s Delegated Recovery protocol to identify and work out security kinks in the new way users regain access to their accounts. Security researchers are encouraged to take part ...

Across Facebook and Instagram, Meta has been storing more than half a billion users' passwords in plain text, with some easily readable for more than a decade. The issue was first uncovered in 2019 ...