The leaked internal chat communications of the Black Basta ransomware group offer an unprecedented view into how cybercriminals operate, plan attacks, and ...

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Mobile devices sometimes get lost. A laptop bag gets left on the bus or train, a smartphone slips out of your pocket, or a USB flash drive falls to the ground unnoticed. Losing a notebook or phone ...

The FBI is warning phone users to encrypt their text messages, especially if you send messages between Apple and Android users. The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ...

You probably have documents on your desktop operating system that contain sensitive information. So what do you do to protect that data? You could hide the document in an obscure folder -- but that's ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is no longer recommending using a mixture of character types in passwords or regularly changing passwords. NIST's second public draft version ...

Update, Sept. 05, 2024: This story, originally published Sept. 03, now includes an explainer regarding OAuth and passkey technology, and news of a hardware security key bypass. Hot on the heels of a ...

Indian physicists have created a user-friendly method for generating inherently unpredictable random numbers 1. It can encrypt password-protected data at the first stage of any form of communication, ...

Setting complex Wi-Fi passwords is one of the most effective ways to secure your network from unauthorized access. However, the downside of having a strong, intricate password is that it can be easy ...

“Would you like to save this password?” We’ve all had a browser, such as Chrome or Edge, ask us this after logging in to a website, but is it the best way to go? Or is it better to use a standalone ...