Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. This isn’t a Google or even a Gmail issue — it’s a widespread ...

Some six years after virtual private network company NordVPN started searching data breaches for the most-used passwords, things are every bit as bad as when the company started. Each year, the ...

CompariTech on Thursday released a report detailing the most-used passwords of 2025, which reveals that "123456" is the worst password of the year. More than 7.61 million accounts out of 2 billion ...

My job, as a cybersecurity evangelist, is something I have taken very seriously for the best part of 40 years now. Yet, given the amount of published words I have written that offer advice on the best ...

Let’s be honest: How many times have you used something like "123456" or "123123" as your password? With so many online accounts to juggle, it’s tempting to go for simple passwords, even though we ...

Top websites keep letting people use weak passwords like 111111, and it’s a major security risk High-traffic websites continue to not guide users to strong passwords. Users really, really need the ...

There's still about seven and a half weeks remaining in 2025, but a new study already has a beat on the worst passwords of the year, with the most awful of the bunch appearing more than 7.6 million ...