Welp, Nvidia’s RTX 5090 can crack an 8-digit password in 3 hours
I have bad news for everyone with weak passwords. A hacker can guess your laziest random passwords in the same amount of time it takes to watch a movie. It turns out when you put…
I have bad news for everyone with weak passwords. A hacker can guess your laziest random passwords in the same amount of time it takes to watch a movie. It turns out when you put…
Those “gentle” reminders to stop sharing Max passwords are about to get tougher, the top exec from the streamer warns. Warner Bros. Discovery streaming CEO JB Perette, the top exec in charge of Max, told…
The modern macOS makes it simple to add encryption to any mounted volume. The password you set when you encrypt a volume has to be entered each time it’s mounted, including after restarting your Mac. You…
If you use Microsoft’s Authenticator app on your mobile phone as a password manager, here’s some bad news: Microsoft is discontinuing the “autofill” password management functionality in Authenticator. According to the announcement post (spotted by…
Password managers such as 1Password and LastPass are great and super important. We maintain a recommended list of Password managers for a reason—a good one makes it easy to use strong, unique passwords everywhere on…
A ton of arbitrary holidays exist (ahem, Tin Can Day), but World Password Day is one fully supported by the PCWorld staff. We’re all for ditching weak passwords — especially when strengthening your security takes…
Password managers are something everyone should have, but you probably don’t want to spend much time or energy thinking about it. You want to set it, forget it, and let it do its thing. But…
Consumer-grade phone surveillance apps aren’t only intended to stay stealthy; some of these apps are also making it increasingly difficult to remove them. TechCrunch has identified a stealthy phone monitoring app for Android that requires…
LayerX Labs on Tuesday posted its finding on a new phishing attack that originally targeted Windows users, but now can be found on Macs. The phishing attack attempts to get a user’s username and password…
In order to take full advantage of all the features of Windows 11, you need a Microsoft account. (It’s possible to use Windows 11 without a Microsoft account, but the company doesn’t want that and…