A new Mac infostealer dubbed PamStealer impersonates the open-source Maccy clipboard manager to steal passwords and more.

Fake CVE exploit repos pull frint and skytext packages to steal researcher credentials, with servers still live as of July 1.

Android 17 adds tougher lock-screen protections that limit failed PIN and password attempts, extend lockout timers, detect duplicate guesses, and make brute-force attacks harder ...

A threat actor targeting Microsoft 365 and Azure production environments is stealing data in attacks that abuse legitimate applications and administration features. Microsoft tracks the actor as Storm ...

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 ...

New Kaspersky research finds modern gaming GPUs can attempt billions of password guesses per second against legacy hashing, highlighting risks for outdated security systems. The study cites an NVIDIA ...

UPDATE: May. 6, 2026, 9:40 a.m. EDT This piece was updated to include a statement from Microsoft. Password managers are supposed to make life easier for users by remembering their passwords and ...

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Compute power is growing at an extraordinary pace. The AI surge has driven massive investment in GPUs and specialized ‘accelerators’, with vendors building increasingly powerful hardware to train ...

New research from Google's Quantum AI team suggests a future quantum computer could derive a bitcoin private key from a public key in about nine minutes, potentially allowing attackers to hijack ...