If you have not checked your credentials lately, now is the time. A staggering 1.3 billion unique passwords and 2 billion unique email addresses surfaced online. This event is one of the largest ...

Passwords play a huge role in how you stay safe online. They protect your accounts, devices and money. Still, many people pick logins that criminals can guess in seconds. The latest NordPass report ...

CompariTech on Thursday released a report detailing the most-used passwords of 2025, which reveals that "123456" is the worst password of the year. More than 7.61 million accounts out of 2 billion ...

Hacker using laptop. Lots of digits on the computer screen. A new report from the password management company NordPass is challenging the idea that federal institutions are more secure than local ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth fired chief of staff for the secretary of the Navy on Friday, according to media reports. The Pentagon confirmed Jon Harrison’s departure in a statement to ...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has summoned nearly all of the US military’s top generals to Marine Corps Base Quantico next week — without telling them why. The directive was given on short notice to ...

On September 25, the Washington Post reported that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has called an in-person meeting of up to 800 flag and general officers (FOs/GOs, or officers of one to four stars).

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday renaming the Department of Defense as the Department of War — a long-telegraphed move aimed at projecting American military toughness around the ...

It’s been a bad year for password managers. First, Microsoft announced earlier this summer that its popular Microsoft Authenticator app would be discontinuing its password manager feature and would ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. By mapping out what the report refers to as a heat map of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, May 25, 2025: This story, originally published May 23, ...

Some of the passwords that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used to register for websites were exposed in cyberattacks on those sites and are available on the internet, raising new questions about his ...