Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Passwords are dangerous — they’re stolen, leaked and breached.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cuyahoga County officials are urging residents to safeguard their personal information after a nationwide cybersecurity incident may have exposed data tied to the county’s ...

A data breach has occurred with the Davidson County mass-alert system, according to a press release from Davidson County Emergency Management. The leaked data includes usernames and passwords for ...

You may have seen warnings that Google is telling all of its users to change their Gmail passwords due to a breach. That’s only partly true. Google is telling users ...

Windows 11 has introduced a new feature for the Out-of-Box Experience (OOBE) that lets users define the profile folder name before the account is created. Instead of accepting a folder automatically ...

Your Apple Account is the key to everything you do on your iPhone, iPad, MacBook, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro. It keeps your purchases, subscriptions and ...

LastPass is warning users of a campaign that targets macOS users with malicious software impersonating popular products delivered through fraudulent GitHub repositories. The fake apps deliver the ...

The Plex streaming platform has experienced a security breach and is telling customers to change their passwords "immediately." They also suggest that users enable two-factor authentication and sign ...

What just happened? Plex, the media streaming company behind its namesake OTT platform and media server software, has confirmed a data breach in which an "unauthorized third party" accessed personal ...

Streaming giant Plex is urging its customers to change their passwords after it disclosed a data breach of one of its user databases. The company said in a post on Monday that it was aware of a ...