The password hacking contest I started 10 months ago is two-thirds over. We have a winner for the second of three hash challenges…I just don’t know who they are. On July 17, 2006, I challenged ...

We all use login IDs and passwords and—at one time or another—we forget them. Sometimes, we don’t know we’ve forgotten them until after we’ve locked out our account. So what’s the process of getting ...

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...

AJ Nettles of Monroeville, Alabama, a second-year graduate student in cybersecurity at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Computer Science, has won Apple’s Swift Student Challenge ...

Despite the fact that cybercriminals stole more than 3 billion user credentials in 2016, users don’t seem to be getting savvier about their password usage. The good news is that how we think about ...