Bitwarden is an excellent and safe example of a password manager, but I wanted something with a smaller footprint on my ...

Any data breach affecting 1.6 million people is serious. It draws even more attention when it involves a company trusted to guard passwords. That is exactly what happened to LastPass. The U.K.

LastPass has been fined £1.2m ($1.6m) by the UK’s data protection watchdog for security failings that led to a major 2022 data breach. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) judged that the ...

The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) fined the LastPass password management firm £1.2 million for failing to implement security measures that allowed an attacker to steal personal ...

Passwords are necessary for almost everything these days – bank accounts, health portals, social media and streaming services. Keeping track of password after password can be as hard as creating new, ...

iOS 26 is packed with big and small changes, only a fraction of which most users have likely discovered. Three of those changes have enabled me to make Apple’s Passwords app my one and only password ...

CompariTech on Thursday released a report detailing the most-used passwords of 2025, which reveals that "123456" is the worst password of the year. More than 7.61 million accounts out of 2 billion ...

With so much of our lives wrapped up in digital identities and platforms, you might want to spare a thought as to how your loved ones can get into things like your bank accounts or social media after ...

As phishing lures go, asking a potential victim of a password hacking attack if they are dead would seem, at least on the surface, to be rather more ridiculous than most. However, the devil is always ...

LastPass is warning customers of a phishing campaign sending emails with an access request to the password vault as part of a legacy inheritance process. The activity started in mid-October, and the ...

Beware this latest LastPass hacking threat. The hugely popular LastPass password manager has not been hacked. This is official and confirmed by LastPass itself, which has issued a warning to users ...