"Admin" was the most-commonly used password in the U.S. between September 2024 and September 2025, NordPass found.

Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Post SMTP plugin installed on more than 400,000 WordPress sites, to take complete control by hijacking administrator accounts.

NordPass's list of the top 200 most common passwords highlights cause for serious concern when it comes to online security.

What makes this now-patched plugin hole especially dangerous is the lack of authentication needed for an attack, which can ...

Kerberoasting attacks let hackers steal service account passwords and escalate to domain admin, often without triggering ...

If you’re using ‘123456’ as a password for your online accounts, you should change it. Here are other bad passwords of 2025 ...

A new report from Nordpass identifies the most commonly used personal and corporate passwords, and they're not that hard to ...

Deleting your Facebook account is easy, but it requires a few simple steps to ensure you don't leave your data behind.

Britons have stopped relying on "password" to secure their online accounts, new research has revealed. But don't celebrate ...

Recent ICO enforcement actions under UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 show a pattern: password failures cost UK businesses millions. Poor credential management, missing MFA, delayed breach ...

A new study by cybersecurity firm Comparitech reveals that the internet’s favorite passwords haven’t evolved much in a decade ...

President Trump has announced a deal to lower the cost of weight-loss drugs Wegovy and Zepbound, with coverage of the drugs ...