GitHub enforces FIDO 2FA and seven-day token limits after Shai-Hulud npm attack to boost supply chain security.

When a clickjack attack managed to hijack a passkey authentication ceremony, were password managers really to blame? ZDNET's investigation reveals a more complicated answer.

Whether you’re ordering drinks to your table in a pub or want to pay for car parking, QR codes make life simple. A quick scan of a black-and-white grid on your mobile phone takes you straight to a ...

A “white” hacker has hacked Burger King — and it turned out to be much easier than expected. Someone left the password “admin” right in the site’s code. The “ethical” hackers BobDaHacker and ...

Russia's mysterious 'Doomsday Radio' came to life on Monday, sending out two cryptic voice messages to unknown listeners. The Cold War-era shortwave station has been broadcasting a continuous, ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Have you ever found yourself having to constantly write out or say your Wi-Fi login and password to family and friends that visit or stay over? I know I have. A simple solution to that problem is to ...

Finance and corporate affairs minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Bill, 2025, in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. The proposed amendments aim to reduce ...

Hackers have exposed 16 billion login credentials, including passwords, in what researchers at Cybernews are calling one of the largest data breaches ever in existence. You don't need to panic, but ...

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It may just be a recurring nightmare for me, but one employee's weak password has led to the close of an entire company. According to the BBC, that's all it took to take down the 158-year long running ...

Cybersecurity firm Expel, in an update shared on July 25, 2025, said it's retracting its findings about a phishing attack that it said leveraged cross-device sign-in to get around FIDO account ...