Passkeys are simpler and more secure than passwords. Here's how they work and how to get started.

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 ...

Google finally lets you import and export passwords and passkeys between Google Password Manager and third-party apps.

A security researcher has discovered that Microsoft Edge will load all your stored passwords into memory in plaintext at startup, making it easy for malware to scrape those passwords. When you ...

An attacker with administrative privileges can gain access to Microsoft Edge user passwords even when they're not in use, because the browser stores them in cleartext in process memory as part of a ...

Though Microsoft claimed that storing plaintext passwords in memory was by design, the company has changed the behavior to better protect your passwords.

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 ...

One of the worst things about having a secure password is remembering it. A secure password is usually long, littered with ...

Digital legacy features make it easier to transfer account access to family members without sharing passwords up front. I'll show you how to get set up in minutes. I review privacy tools like hardware ...

Codex tokens were exfiltrated via a popular npm package, affecting users since v0.1.82 and enabling persistent account access ...

A SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) is a tiny bit of circuitry that uniquely identifies your cellular modem in a phone, tablet, or other device to nearby cellular networks to allow access for voice, ...

WTF?! Microsoft advertises its password manager as having robust encryption on par with well-regarded third-party options. However, security researchers have discovered that the browser effectively ...