Decrypt

Pirated Copies of 'The Odyssey' Are Hiding Crypto-Stealing Malware

Security firm Bitdefender fake downloads of The Odyssey are already spreading Lumma Stealer, malware that scrapes crypto ...

How to tell if your AI platforms’ accounts have been hacked

Just like any other online service, hackers can target and break into your accounts on popular AI platforms such as ChatGPT, ...
unite

Anthropic Explains the Mechanics of Claude’s Text Watermark

Anthropic published a detailed account on August 14, 2026 of how the text watermark in future Claude models works, identifying it as a version of the SynthID-Text technique Google DeepMind published ...

Chrome adopts what may be the best protection yet against account takeovers

Google’s Chrome browser has added a new feature that could go a long way in preventing a form of account takeover that’s ...
PC World

124 million passwords added to breach database. Yours may be in there, too

The data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) has added a large number of compromised login credentials to its database. In total, 56.3 million email addresses and 124 million ...
Macworld

Apple finally got rid of my biggest password headache

Macworld reports that Apple’s iOS 27, unveiled at WWDC 2026, introduces an AI-powered feature in the Passwords app that automatically updates weak and compromised passwords with a single click. This ...
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 ...
Lifehacker

I Refused to Use Passkeys Until Apple Added This Feature to Its Passwords App

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. I'm strongly in favor of using password ...
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Microsoft backtracks on Edge storing your passwords in plaintext RAM

Original story from May 5th, 2026: If you tend to save your passwords in your browser, you need to be more careful. A security researcher from Norway has uncovered a serious vulnerability in Microsoft ...
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 ...
Government Technology

How many passwords does the average user have?

NordPass recently surveyed 1,509 users about their password habits, and for the first time in years people reported having fewer passwords to manage. When the password manager began collecting this ...
Dark Reading

Microsoft Edge Stores Passwords in Process Memory, Posing Enterprise Risk

An attacker with administrative privileges can gain access to Microsoft Edge user passwords even when they're not in use, because the browser stores them in cleartext in process memory as part of a ...