Hundreds of Brother printer models have been found to harbor a serious security flaw that can't be fully patched on existing devices. First noticed by Rapid7 in May and publicly disclosed on June 25, ...

A total of 689 printer models from Brother, along with 53 other models from Fujifilm, Toshiba, and Konica Minolta, come with a default administrator password that remote attackers can generate. Even ...

The federal government risks defaulting on its debt sometime this summer or early fall without congressional action to address its debt ceiling, a new analysis found. The Bipartisan Policy Center ...

Microsoft says it’s making passwordless logins the default means for signing in to new accounts, as the company helps drive an industry-wide push to transition away from passwords and the costly ...

123456 is, in the password world, about as lazy as it gets. All passwords are certainly not created equal, and some are way more common – and predictable – than others. Cybersecurity experts are ...

The federal government could default on its debt as soon as July, a new forecast from the Bipartisan Policy Center warns, raising pressure on Congress for action. The prominent think tank forecast ...

A security researcher says the default password shipped in a widely used door access control system allows anyone to easily and remotely access door locks and elevator controls in dozens of buildings ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is no longer recommending using a mixture of character types in passwords or regularly changing passwords. NIST's second public draft version ...

Discover the importance of a default gateway in network connectivity and security. Learn how to find yours, what it does, and why it matters. There are many things about network connectivity that the ...

Setting complex Wi-Fi passwords is one of the most effective ways to secure your network from unauthorized access. However, the downside of having a strong, intricate password is that it can be easy ...

Clean installs of Windows 11 version 24H2 now have BitLocker device encryption enabled. Clean installs of Windows 11 version 24H2 now have BitLocker device encryption enabled. is a senior editor and ...

When it comes to something as fundamental as File Explorer in Windows—the utility for viewing and managing files on disk—you might think that you don't have any other option but to use the tool ...