The hacking of Adobe that compromised tens of millions of accounts is no joke, but at least we can enjoy a little dark humor over users’ predictably awful passwords. The passwords were posted by ...

Facepalm: Unfortunately but not surprising, people in general tend to be careless when it comes to computer security, especially regarding passwords. Pin it on laziness, difficulty remembering complex ...

A recruitment platform used by McDonald’s is alleged to have had such poor cybersecurity that researchers were able to log into it using a non-password and thus gain access to information on tens of ...

A study has claimed that '123456' is now the world's worst password. According to SplashData, the six-digit figure has replaced 'password' as the most-used (and therefore worst) password for 2013. A ...

"123456" was number one on the list in 2013 and "password" fell to number two, followed by "12345678." "qwerty" was number four. Those are the first six letters on the top left letter row of most ...