You should avoid enabling WPS, disabling password protection, or using default passwords, as these measures will weaken your ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has warned its customers after discovering five vulnerabilities in its products, including one which cybercriminals could use to take over certain endpoints. In a ...

A group of academic security researchers have detailed a set of vulnerabilities in four popular cloud-based password managers that could allow an attacker to view and change the passwords stored in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California Gov. Gavin Newsom spoke at the Munich Security Conference on Friday and spoke out against President Donald Trump's ...

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and President Trump plan to announce on Thursday that the U.S. government will no longer recognize climate change as a threat to the health and safety of people, which ...

Change Your Password Day is celebrated annually on February 1, so we invited IT Expert Sarah Kimmel to give us some useful tips. First, she says "Length is Strength ...

The Trump administration told a Long Island school district that it violated federal civil rights laws by changing the names of its school mascot – a move it made to comply with a state ban on Native ...

Hackers began exploiting an authentication bypass vulnerability in SmarterTools' SmarterMail email server and collaboration tool that allows resetting admin passwords. An authentication bypass ...

A wave of password reset emails went out to Instagram users around the world over the weekend. Instagram claims there was no data breach, but rather an abuse of its reset system. Even Android ...

Instagram users had a scare over the weekend after many users were sent mysterious password reset emails that seemed to come directly from Instagram. Some users thought this might be a phishing email, ...

UPDATE: Jan. 11, 2026, 2:04 p.m. EST We have updated this story, initially published on January 10, to include a statement from Instagram responding to concerns about password reset scams, saying that ...

Seems a lot of people got password reset requests from Instagram over the last few days, including several Verge staffers and members of their family. The email might look legit. It might even have ...