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For all of us who hate passwords, passkeys represent a simpler and safer way of authenticating online accounts. But adoption has been slow, with many companies and websites still relying on passwords.

Your personal data is collected by almost every site or app you visit. The world is more data hungry than ever because it's now the most important asset, even more valuable than oil. Your shopping ...

Meta is now starting to roll out support for passkeys to all Facebook users on Android and IOS. Passkeys are a password-free authentication standard that is stored locally on your device, be it a ...

More than 184 million passwords may have been compromised in a massive data leak affecting everything from social media logins to bank accounts, according to a new report published by cybersecurity ...

This week, researchers from Cybernews have sounded the alarm on one of the largest data breaches in history, with over 16 billion login credentials exposed online. Although companies like Apple, ...

Meta has been fined €91M ($101M) after it was discovered that to 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords had been stored in plain text. Some of those passwords had been unprotected since 2012, ...

The issues keep piling up for Facebook. Photo: Ste Smith/Cult of Mac It’s time to change your Facebook and Instagram passwords again. Facebook revealed today that it unknowingly stored hundreds of ...

While it's not as large in scale as the latest data breach that leaked over 16 billion passwords, another incident has exposed passwords and other sensitive information across some of the most popular ...

On most major websites, you're bound to see a handful of familiar icons under the login credential fields. Likely, an option to sign in to that particular website via Google, Facebook, Apple, and ...

Across Facebook and Instagram, Meta has been storing more than half a billion users' passwords in plain text, with some easily readable for more than a decade. The issue was first uncovered in 2019 ...