The pattern is clear: many of us still rely on simple words, easy number strings and familiar keyboard patterns.

These days, people can have more than 100 passwords to keep track of. A new report from Nordpass shows that the most common ...

"Admin" was the most-commonly used password in the U.S. between September 2024 and September 2025, NordPass found.

How safe are your app and online accounts? Unfortunately, if you are part of the 85% of people who use variations of the same password on different accounts, your data may not be very secure. And if ...

Statistically speaking, your passwords probably suck. At least, that’s the implication made by one cybersecurity research team, which analyzed over 19 billion leaked passwords and found only six ...

Large language models (LLMs), such as the model underpinning the functioning of OpenAI's conversational platform ChatGPT, ...

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Three cybersecurity researchers discovered close to 19 million plaintext passwords exposed on the public internet by misconfigured instances of Firebase, a Google platform for hosting databases, cloud ...