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

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The State Board of Elections is sending letters to more than 241,000 voters who, when they registered to vote, provided identification numbers that did not validate against ...

Building in a quiet technical space brought its own challenges. Market skepticism around yet another validation tool required patience. Technical complexity demanded careful updates rather than rapid ...

Nearly 150 million email and social media accounts may have been compromised. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler wrote in a report that he uncovered a database — which was not ...

Cloudflare has addressed a security vulnerability impacting its Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) validation logic that made it possible to bypass security controls and access origin ...

If you got an unexpected email from Instagram asking you to reset your password last week, you weren't alone. Users received these emails starting around January 8, but parent company Meta has not ...

Instagram has reassured users that their accounts remain secure after a sudden surge of unexplained password reset emails caused confusion and concern across the platform, sparking fears of a major ...

Instagram is reassuring users that their accounts and private information are safe after many reported unusual emails urging password updates in recent days. Users have shared screenshots of messages ...

A wave of password reset emails went out to Instagram users around the world over the weekend. Instagram claims there was no data breach, but rather an abuse of its reset system. Even Android ...

Instagram denied a breach of its systems — but also warned that those sketchy password reset emails were triggered by an external party. The entire situation is bizarre and, frankly, confusing.

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...