Ben Weitzenkorn

At first, they might seem like an unlikely bunch, but "ashley," "football," "jesus," "ninja" and "michael" all have something very important in common. They're among the weakest passwords computer use...

A key called "UserPassWordHint" may be the most obviously named methods of attempt to break into machines that run Windows 7 and 8.Although the password hints are hashed with additional zeros, they ar...

Ahhh, the anonymizing effects of the Internet. From where you sit, I’m little more than a byline and a couple of hundred black words on a white field. It's a fact, or fiction, that gives many Intern...

Scientists in England can now see through walls­—kind of. Researchers have created a luggage-sized device that can detect human activity behind a one-foot thick brick wall based on Wi-Fi signal fre...