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Having trouble coming up with good passwords? Don't rely on AI. Here's why.

The era of AI has not been particularly great for cybersecurity. We know that vibe-coded websites and apps have been a hotbed of security flaws that leave the platforms vulnerable to attacks. It turns ...

Security experts warn against using AI-generated passwords after finding predictable patterns in outputs from ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude that make them vulnerable to attacks. PCWorld reports that AI ...

I'm a bit of a broken record when it comes to personal security on the internet: Make strong passwords for each account; never reuse any passwords; and sign up for two-factor authentication whenever ...

Have you ever asked an AI for a password? When you do, it quickly generates one, telling you confidently that the output is strong. In reality, it's anything but, according to research shared ...

The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a self-propagating JavaScript worm began vandalizing pages and modifying user scripts across multiple wikis.

Stop using the same login credentials everywhere. The top password managers we've tested create unique, strong passwords for each of your online accounts and alert you to potential data leaks. I ...

One of the most persistent and underestimated cybersecurity risks is near-identical password reuse. This is the practice of adding or changing a character in an existing password, instead of creating ...

People are bad at passwords. Most don’t bother with the unique, complex phrases or character strings that make a good password. Worse, they share weak passwords with others. The best password managers ...

Have you ever had Apple Passwords generate a new password that didn’t end up being saved correctly? Sometimes a website crashes at the wrong moment, or uses protocols that don’t exactly play nice with ...