"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." The 200 most common passwords range from bad (qwerty) to worse (xxx). Consider changing your ...

Stop me if this sounds familiar: You’re setting up (yet another) online account when you’re prompted to enter a password. Sigh. It’s just easier to go with one ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

(NBC News)–Even in the wake of data hacks and security breaches, a study of 2 million leaked online passwords shows that people stick to simplicity–even as simple as the password “password.” Popular ...

Whether you support President Trump or not, using his first name as your password isn’t a good idea. For the first time, “donald” cracked SplashData’s annual ...

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On Sunday, the UK's National Cyber Security Centre released a list of 100,000 common passwords that users should avoid using. On that list is "Blink182," a reference to the American rock band. The ...

It’s more likely that you’ve used a horrible, easily hackable password than you might hope. Nearly 10 percent of people have relied on at least one of the 25 most shamefully guessable passwords on ...

Hundreds of millions of internet users continue to put themselves at risk of having their accounts hacked by using incredibly simple and commonly used passwords which can easily be guessed by cyber ...

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