Q: I saw PCWorld’s lists for the best password managers, and your top picks were for cloud-based services. Wouldn’t a locally stored password database be more secure? A: One of our top password ...

People trust password managers, and when that trust isn’t upheld, it can prove costly — as LastPass has just discovered.

Any data breach affecting 1.6 million people is serious. It draws even more attention when it involves a company trusted to ...

The FBI has confirmed that 630 million stolen passwords were found on devices belonging to a single hacker. Here's how to check if yours is one of them.

Security researchers have discovered what appears to be the largest password leak of all time, containing around 10 billion unique, plain text passwords. The file, titled "rockyou2024.txt," was posted ...

Digital systems hold sensitive information for every organization. More than antivirus software or secure networks are needed to protect this data. A good password management system is vital to ...

Everyone needs a password manager. It's the only way to maintain unique, hard-to-guess credentials for every secure site you and your team access daily. And unless you want to be a sitting duck on the ...

Whether you’re fed up with online password managers or just mistrust them, KeePassXC is a great way to securely self-manage your passwords. It doesn’t exactly replicate an online password manager, but ...

I’ve been using password managers for a long time, starting with the open-source KeePass in Windows nearly 20 years ago. When I moved back to the Apple world in the late 2000s, I was drawn in by the ...

Passwords are a staple of both the internet and computing at large. Even as new authentication protocols have emerged—from passkeys to biometrics—most of us use passwords to log into our daily ...

Hackers who compiled a database of as many as 350,000 Spotify passwords proceeded to store it on a cloud server … without a password. The breach also offers a reminder of a key principle to apply when ...