Traditional logins are officially obsolete. Learn how passkeys work, why hackers hate them, and the simple cookie trick to lock down your data.

Hackers are actively scanning for a Rejetto HFS weak signing key vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-61500, that allows ...

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Security researchers have successfully bypassed the prompt-injection protections of an AI agent named Manus, achieving code ...

Researchers disclosed Branch Target Reuse (BTR), an attack that exploits stale branch predictions left in the CPU after JIT code is reused. This article examines the Linux root-hash experiment, what ...

Chrome was doing the bare minimum ...

Unwise design choices from a specialty password manager allowed any malicious website to obtain complete, persistent access to customers' vaults. "Passportal" is a credential management product from N ...

You've likely been prompted to add a passkey to some of your accounts. Passwords are familiar but have many issues, while passkeys offer solid improvements but aren't ...

You’ll sacrifice some nice-to-have features by going with a free password manager, but Bitwarden doesn’t skimp on the ones that matter. A high-quality free ...

Think about how many online accounts you use in a typical week. Between work, banking, shopping, streaming, social media, and everything in between, it’s easy to end up managing dozens of passwords.

Everyone should use a password manager, but not everyone necessarily needs to pay for a premium password manager subscription. But occasionally a service will have the right mix of useful features and ...

Rich Hein is a veteran technology journalist with more than two decades covering developer, consumer and enterprise topics. Rich's career has been dedicated to service journalism, connecting readers ...