CrashFix crashes browsers to coerce users into executing commands that deploy a Python RAT, abusing finger.exe and portable Python to evade detection and persist on high‑value systems.

More than 149 million passwords were exposed in an unsecured database, including logins for social media, streaming services, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Updated January 25 with even more analysis of the publicly ...

The most common stolen passwords in 2025 were 123456, admin, and password, according to a Specops study. Despite years of security awareness efforts, an analysis of 6 billion credentials leaked in ...

Routers play a vital role in our daily web browsing activity. The role of cables has gradually moved to the backend. Signals and frequencies have taken over the internet connection via WiFi. We ...

A retired lawyer lost the money in a tech support scam, a type of online fraud that is surging. Citibank said it couldn’t recover the funds, which criminals wired from inside his account. David Welles ...

LEXINGTON, N.C. — Davidson County Emergency Management is warning residents of a data breach of its CodeRed mass alert system. According to a release, the leaked data included usernames, passwords for ...

Abstract: Passwords are widely used for website authentication, but they are vulnerable to guessing attacks. To measure password guessability, the commonly used approach involves modeling the ...

Streaming giant Plex is urging its customers to change their passwords after it disclosed a data breach of one of its user databases. The company said in a post on Monday that it was aware of a ...

Multiplication in Python may seem simple at first—just use the * operator—but it actually covers far more than just numbers. You can use * to multiply integers and floats, repeat strings and lists, or ...

Enterprise passwords are becoming easier to steal and increasingly difficult to stop being abused once they leak. According to the Picus Security’s latest annual Blue Report, based on more than 160 ...

The Python Package Index (PyPI) has introduced new protections against domain resurrection attacks that enable hijacking accounts through password resets. PyPI is the official repository for ...