"Admin" was the most-commonly used password in the U.S. between September 2024 and September 2025, NordPass found.

For every age bracket, “12345” and “123456” are always on top, but older generations are more likely to use names in their ...

Equifax (EFX) used the word “admin” as both password and username for a portal that contained sensitive information, according to a class action lawsuit filed in federal court in the Northern District ...

Admin Privileges and User Accounts have become standard on Windows. There are two types of users on Windows: Administrators and Standard users. While administrators get unrestricted access to all the ...

NordPass's list of the top 200 most common passwords highlights cause for serious concern when it comes to online security.

Security settings on Windows PCs often have admin rights enabled by default. It makes sense since most normal users shouldn’t need admin rights. However, many standard Windows users will come across ...

Q. We have three company computers running Windows 7, and we can access them with user accounts. However, no one knows those computers’ administrative passwords, which is preventing us from connecting ...

If you're using the popular open source blogging tool WordPress to power your website, you may be vulnerable to a new web-based attack. If your WordPress admin pages suddenly become sluggish, ...

Get an added level of protection by activating this back-up administrator account in Vista and by safeguarding it in XP. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for ...

Each router has a different set of default factory settings. The default username and password for each router is “admin“. The default IP address for each router is 192.168.1.1 Check the router’s ...