Be honest with me. How many of your passwords are still some version of your pet’s name followed by a number? Studies have shown that roughly 80% of data breaches involve weak or reused passwords.

After the CopyFail vulnerability gave root access from any user on almost all distributions last week, this week we’ve got DirtyFrag. This chains the vulnerability in CopyFail (xfrm-ESP) and ...

Google caught hackers using AI to build a 2FA bypass exploit in 2026 — the first confirmed AI-built zero-day. We're going to ...

Our '7 Days' weekly tech roundup brings the juiciest announcements. Read about Edge browser handling passwords in plaintext, JDownloader getting hacked, and the TAB key.

Are magic links secure? A security analyst breaks down token entropy, replay protection, expiry, device binding, and email compromise risks for MojoAuth users.

Google says crooks already have AI cooking up zero-days, and claims one nearly escaped into the wild before the company stopped it. In a report shared with The Register ahead of publication on Monday, ...

Compare 10 Firebase Auth alternatives for consumer apps and ecommerce in 2026. Pricing at 500K and 2M MAU, passkey support, and migration tradeoffs.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. Meta has confirmed it will collect interactions with its AI tools to ...

Cliff Matyszczyk, owner of The Wrought Stuff, of Wales, Wis., assembles his booth on Thursday, May 9, 2024, as he sets up to ...

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