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 ...

As phishing lures go, asking a potential victim of a password hacking attack if they are dead would seem, at least on the surface, to be rather more ridiculous than most. However, the devil is always ...

Hack of the day: Cybercriminals rarely guess passwords manually. Instead, they use automated tools that can test millions of password combinations in seconds. Short passwords, predictable words, names ...