FortiBleed campaign used custom FortiGate sniffer to steal credentials

Security firm SOCRadar says the large-scale FortiBleed campaign targeting Fortinet FortiGate devices used custom sniffers to ...
techtimes

Credential Stuffing Risk Spikes: 24 Billion Stolen Passwords Linked to Live Exploit Data

Security researchers at Cybernews discovered on June 12 what they describe as one of the largest credential databases ever left exposed online — a publicly accessible Elasticsearch cluster holding 24 ...
SecurityWeek

FortiBleed: 86,000 Fortinet Device Credentials Compromised

Hackers have compiled a database of over 86,000 working credentials for internet-accessible Fortinet firewalls and VPNs.
MacRumors

Apple Passwords Can Now Automatically Fix Weak and Compromised Passwords With Agentic AI

Apple today announced that the Passwords app can now automatically update weak and compromised passwords using Apple Intelligence and Safari to take action on a user's behalf. The feature builds on ...
Inc

Why You Need to Stop Using Passwords and Switch to This Secure Alternative Now

If you’ve been hearing a lot more about passkeys recently, there’s good reason for it. After becoming more widely available in 2022, passkeys have surged in popularity, driven by ease of use and ...
ZDNet

Microsoft Edge just stopped storing your passwords in plaintext - but you'll need the latest update

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News Of Bahrain

Cyber Alert: 68% of Leaked Passwords Crack in Just One Day

New York: A new study by cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has found that 68% of leaked passwords can be cracked within just one day, raising fresh concerns over online security. The company analysed 231 ...
The New York Times

Tired of Hacked Passwords? Help Is on the Way.

Apps from Apple, Google and others can assist in making your online accounts more secure, even as new ways of logging in continue to take off. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer writes about how to ...
Hosted on MSN

Gaming GPUs can crack your passwords in minutes

New Kaspersky research finds modern gaming GPUs can attempt billions of password guesses per second against legacy hashing, highlighting risks for outdated security systems. The study cites an NVIDIA ...
Digital Trends

Edge browser has a serious password safety problem, but Microsoft says it’s by design

If you save your passwords in Microsoft Edge, here’s something you should know. Every time you open the browser, it decrypts all your saved passwords and loads them into memory in cleartext, where ...
Mashable

Microsoft Edge is storing passwords as plain text? Here's what Microsoft says.

UPDATE: May. 6, 2026, 9:40 a.m. EDT This piece was updated to include a statement from Microsoft. Password managers are supposed to make life easier for users by remembering their passwords and ...