If you don’t count hackers, phishers and pirates, most computer users hate passwords. Tech giants have been predicting the death of passwords since 2004 when Bill Gates foretold of their inevitable ...

Internet security firm SplashData has revealed the 25 most common passwords of 2014, and if yours happens to be one of them, change it immediately. The company compiled the data based on 3.3 million ...

Can the government force you to reveal a password to unlock encrypted files on your computer that are known to contain child pornography? Or would doing so constitute a violate your Fifth Amendment ...

University of Texas at Austin researchers have developed a new method to encode information in synthetic molecules. Molecules like DNA can store large amounts of data without requiring an energy ...

Passwords used by many of Sweden’s cyber elite are now available on the Internet following a hack against the Swedish Computer Society, an organization of IT professionals. Among the victims are a ...