Spiderman is already a hacker favourite, used in a phishing attack framework that’s hired out to cybercriminals. However, it only makes number 6 in the top fictional character password list, behind SpongeBob, Hello Kitty, Wall-E and Batman. Number one is Superman, and could, rather ironically, be your password protection kryptonite if you use it.

In the latest cybersecurity scare, a file with nearly 10 billion passwords has been posted to a hacking site. Researchers at Cybernews said they discovered the file, posted on July 4, with 9,948,575,739 unique plaintext passwords. Cybernews experts said ...

Can one little digit change your luck when it comes to being hacked? Yes, according to researchers at ProxyScrape. That team has determined that simply adding the number 7 to your password, the time it would take a hacker to figure out your password would ...

Disney employee Matthew Van Andel first discovered something was wrong when a stranger on Discord messaged him with details from his private workplace Slack conversations. As reported in The Wall Street Journal, the hacker had been lurking in his computer ...

There are an incredible 9,948,575,739 passwords compiled all in plain text, close to 10 billion passwords, posted by user "ObamaCare". The user registered on the hacking forum in late May 2024, previously sharing the employee database from law firm Simmons ...