'Think of it like someone buying a military‑grade lock‑picking robot.' ...

Gmail users have been warned that a notorious group of hackers is targeting account holders after gaining access to a huge database. The Google attack originated from a breach of Salesforce's cloud ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. If you read my article here, you will already know that ...

A suspected group of Russian government hackers was caught targeting Ukrainians with new iPhone hacking tools designed for espionage and potentially to steal crypto.

As mass hacks abound, it's hard to know the best way to handle our Internet security, so we went to a password expert to figure out how best to protect ourselves. Alex Horan is a proclaimed "white hat ...

Today we start a weeklong series to help you avoid getting hacked. Everyone knows that bigger is better, in this case longer is best. When you make a password, it’s common these days to add special ...

If your password was part of a previous data breach or uses words in the dictionary, then a hacker can figure out your password — no matter how many characters, symbols or numbers used — instantly.

Open-source password manager Bitwarden is adding an extra layer of security for accounts that are not protected by two-factor authentication, requiring email verification before allowing access to ...

Try as it may, Microsoft doesn’t always manage to get security patching right the first time. Sometimes, external researchers looking at patching one vulnerability find another that emerges from the ...

In a stark warning to the public, Virgin Media O2 has enlisted an ethical hacker to demonstrate how easily cybercriminals can uncover people’s passwords and personal data, sometimes in as little as ...