TL;DR: When attackers probe government systems, they often begin not with stolen credentials or phishing emails but with aging routers and firewalls left running long past their expiration dates.

It has been a rough start to the year for password security. A massive database containing 149 million stolen logins and passwords was found publicly exposed online. The data included credentials tied ...

This “dream wish list for criminals” includes millions of Gmail, Facebook, banking logins, and more. The researcher who discovered it suspects they were collected using infostealing malware. The ...

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Update: New information added to the end of the story. The latest incarnation of the notorious BreachForums hacking forum has suffered a data breach, with its user database table leaked online.

YouTube has added new search filters to separate Shorts from regular videos. The new option allows users to exclude short clips. Viewers can now finally set long-form videos as their default choice in ...

Apple says iPhone users need to continue to use caution as an ongoing wave of scams continues to target users, but also says some help should be coming soon. As part of a recent warning, the tech ...

“2.5 billion Gmail users should change passwords,” the headlines warn, saying Google has issued an emergency alert to all its users. Not so fast, however. While Google and Gmail are often targeted by ...

You may have seen warnings that Google is telling all of its users to change their Gmail passwords due to a breach. That’s only partly true. Google is telling users ...

Faced with mounting backlash, OpenAI removed a controversial ChatGPT feature that caused some users to unintentionally allow their private—and highly personal—chats to appear in search results. Fast ...