Can one little digit change your luck when it comes to being hacked? Yes, according to researchers at ProxyScrape. That team has determined that simply adding the number 7 to your password, the time it would take a hacker to figure out your password would ...

Logs including 183 million passwords have been leaked online. (Getty) Passwords for 183 million web accounts are believed to have been leaked online in recent months after being shared openly on online forums by cybercriminals. The data from the accounts ...

Spiderman is already a hacker favourite, used in a phishing attack framework that’s hired out to cybercriminals. However, it only makes number 6 in the top fictional character password list, behind SpongeBob, Hello Kitty, Wall-E and Batman. Number one is Superman, and could, rather ironically, be your password protection kryptonite if you use it.

A text file called RockYou2024 was uploaded to the dark web on July 4, exposing over 10 billion unique passwords. It marks the largest password leak in history. A ...