Passwords

WWDC 2022: Apple to start “long journey” away from passwords

Apple has confirmed its plan to start the “long journey” away from passwords. At the company's WWDC developer conference, the…

NCSC advises random passwords instead of pet names on National Pet Day

British cyber experts revealed that 15% of UK citizens use their pet’s name as a password to protect their online…

eBay Puts Another Nail in the Password Coffin with WebAuthn Rollout

eBay has become the latest company to move towards phasing out passwords, adding WebAuthn-based logins to its web-based version of…

16 Million Fortune 500 Passwords Added to Dark Web in 12 Months

Web security company, ImmuniWeb says there are now over 21 million (21,040,296) stolen user credentials belonging to Fortune 500 companies available…

How Much Worse Can It Get? Facebook Stored Up to 600M Plain Text Passwords

Never has Nick Clegg's new job looked less enviable: in the latest privacy car crash for Facebook, the company has…

Secret Double Octopus Rolls Out MFA for Macs on Corporate Networks

Israeli startup Secret Double Octopus has made its Octopus multi-factor authentification (MFA) tool available for Mac enterprise users. Octopus makes password-free MFA…

LastPass Survey Reveals Smaller Companies Lead the Way in Password Security

A survey of more than 3,000 companies and their enterprise password security by password manager LastPass reveals that multi-factor authentification (MFA)…

Mozilla Releases Firefox 60 – Host of Security, Enterprise Upgrades

Mozilla yesterday released the latest version of its widespread browser, Firefox 60. It's the first browser to offer password-free logins,…

Over half of Brits aged 18-25 use same password across all accounts

Research has revealed that young Brits are among the many that lack cyber security awareness, despite the continuing push to…