Update, May 26, 2025: This story, originally published May 24, has been updated with a brief history of PIN codes, information regarding the most secure codes you can use and why 8068 really isn’t the ...
A few weeks ago, Tarah Wheeler, the senior director of Data trust, Threat, and Vulnerability Management at Splunk, shared a list of the most common PIN codes people use to protect their smartphones ...
Researchers recently conducted a study that allowed them to identify which smartphone took a picture It was able to identify the correct smartphone 99.5% of the time and only needed one picture to do ...
As tempting as it might be, avoid using 0000 as your four-digit PIN code. Same goes for 1010, 1111, 1122, and 1212, which comprises the top five worst PIN codes, according to a list compiled by ...
PINoptic says it has new software that will help make smartphones more secure by associating pictures with pass codes instead of numbers. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, ...
The driver types the PIN code to open the rented Smart Car2Go car via the app at a parking center in Berlin, Oct. 26, 2017. Carsten Koall/Getty Images If there are things you can trust to not change, ...
What's safer? Using a numeric PIN code to unlock your Android smartphone or relying on a finger squiggle? Newly-released research suggests that, at least when someone close by could be looking over ...