Troy Hunt has expanded his Pwned Passwords tool with 80 million more passwords, to help users find if their passwords have been compromised.

It was June 2012 when Dale Meredith was shopping online for a BBQ grill for Father’s Day and found one at Sears.com. The only snag, he had to create a username and password to buy it. That irked him. He was annoyed because it was literally the hundredth-plus service—including his local newspaper, home router, and...

With the scourge of digital credential theft on the rise Microsoft is urging IT admin to button-up their networks and get serious about passwords and account security. The IT behemoth posted on Tuesday a best practices cheat sheet for administrators along with updating customers on some of the company’s latest security tools for keeping accounts...

Over 117 million LinkedIn user logins are for sale on the black market “The Real Deal” by hacker “Peace” for five Bitcoins ($2,280). The breach is tied to an earlier hack on LinkedIn in 2012, when the company originally said 6.5 million accounts had been compromised. The hacker, identified as Peace, claims the the data...

Should passwords that protect your financial data be less secure than the ones used to lock up selfies, cat videos and tweets swapped on social networks? In a study that looked at the password strength required to access website account for Wells Fargo, Capital One and 15 other banks, researchers found that 35 percent had...