How closely do you examine the URL of websites or the address of emails that get sent your way? A scam involving making these addresses look legitimate targets victims who believe they are interacting ...

A hacker going by the name Chucky_BF has allegedly stolen details for 15.8 million PayPal accounts and is selling them on an internet forum at a bargain price of just $750 USD. The treasure trove of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Looking back at 2025, it isn’t hard to pick out the biggest ...

The EU's NIS2 Directive is pushing organizations to take cybersecurity seriously, and that means looking closely at how you manage access. If you're responsible for security in a company that falls ...

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse in terms of cybersecurity bad news this week, the FBI has revealed a staggering database of 630 million compromised passwords from multiple devices ...

Marshall Gunnell is a Tokyo-based tech journalist and editor with over a decade of experience covering IT, cybersecurity and data storage. Alongside CNET, his work has appeared in ZDNET, Business ...

Passkey technology offers a superior method of authenticating customer identification, both in terms of convenience and security, writes Andrew Shikiar, of the FIDO Alliance. The password is dying. If ...

Have I Been Pwned is a website that tracks which services have lost user data, with millions of passwords in the database that continually grows as additional breaches occur. So it comes as no ...

Hackers gained access to an online coding repository belonging to the University of Sydney and stole files with personal information of staff and students. The institution said the breach was limited ...

Security researchers have flagged a coordinated credential-based campaign targeting VPN authentication endpoints from Cisco and Palo Alto Networks. Over just two days in mid-December, attackers ...