A fake Apple email about app-specific passwords claims a $2,990 PayPal charge and urges recipients to call a support number, but it is a phishing scam.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive data leak has exposed more than 183 million email passwords for Gmail and other web services over the past several ...

A massive leak has exposed more than 183 million email passwords, including tens of millions linked to Gmail accounts, in what cybersecurity analysts are calling one of the biggest credential dumps ...

Do you ever wish your emails could be extra-secure so they can't be opened by just anyone? Whether you're sending private messages containing sensitive or personal information, or you just want to be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Try simple fixes like canceling the prompt or restarting Outlook to stop the password loop. Ensure Outlook is set to remember your ...

Password hygiene might be going downhill for people with .gov email addresses, according to a new identity exposure report released by cyber crime analytics company SpyCloud. SpyCloud uses recaptured ...

Q: It appears I got caught up in the AT&T data breach and found that my email password was identified as being on the dark Web, so I changed it both in the Outlook desktop app and in Microsoft 365. My ...

Every now and then Apple's Mail e-mail client may start prompting you for account passwords, even though they were previously saved. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

Yesterday we reported on a fairly common issue where a Mac OS X application "forgets" passwords that are stored in the Keychain. This usually involves constant prompting for the password even though ...

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