Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

In this world now, everything is password protected, your phone, computer, e-mails, and whatnot. And remembering so many passwords can be difficult sometimes. What’s more, you cannot have a simple ...

Using an AI coding assistant to migrate an application from one programming language to another wasn’t as easy as it looked. Here are three takeaways.

Why Passwords Are Still a Developer's Problem in 2026. The case against password-based authentication is well-established in the IAM community, but the practical implications for ...

A fake $TEMU crypto airdrop uses the ClickFix trick to make victims run malware themselves and quietly installs a ...

Every reused or weak password puts you at risk. I'm here to show you how to keep your accounts safe from hackers, phishing, and identity theft by using a password manager. I review privacy tools like ...

A lone attacker, leveraging commercial AI tools, has breached over 600 organizations globally in just over a month. Exploiting common FortiGate firewall vulnerabilities, the hacker used AI for ...

Keep your host free from lingering services and mismatched versions. Run your dev stack in isolation and rebuild it when ...

You can even self-host it!

Tycoon2FA has become a leading phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platforms, enabling campaigns that reach over 500,000 ...