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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, ...

Passwords play a huge role in how you stay safe online. They protect your accounts, devices and money. Still, many people pick logins that criminals can guess in seconds. The latest NordPass report ...

March 25: “Hurrah, and vote for suffrage! Don’t keep them in doubt.” —Febb Burn, a 47-year-old widow, in a letter to her son, ...

A new study has revealed America’s most common passwords and the results make for concerning reading. It’s more important now than ever before for web users to protect personal information online with ...

Despite a barrage of news about high-profile breaches stemming from compromised login credentials and dire warnings from experts, people continue to use weak passwords that are easily cracked. New ...

Earlier this month, security guru Troy Hunt added a staggering two billion unique email addresses and 1.3 billion unique passwords to his Have I Been Pwned and Pwned Passwords databases. Aggregated by ...

This year, “admin” is the most common password in South Africa, replacing last year's top choice of “123456”. Additionally, “admin” made the biggest leap, climbing from 20th place in South Africa last ...

在Web应用的安全体系中，验证码（CAPTCHA）常被视为抵御自动化攻击的"第一道防线"。从简单的图片数字验证码到复杂的滑动拼图、行为验证，其核心目标是区分"人类用户"和"机器程序"，防止恶意攻击者通过脚本批量爆破登录、枚举用户接口、注册垃圾账号或滥用短信通道。然而，在真实的攻防对抗中，这看似坚固的防线却常常被攻破——某电商平台因验证码识别插件绕过导致百万用户信息泄露，某社交APP因短信接口滥用被 ...