News & Reviews:   passwords

Substack, a service focused on email newsletters, has now confirmed that its service experienced a user data leak to a third party in October 2025. Substack said that among the data affected were email addresses and phone numbers.

In this 7th edition, NordPass returns with its 2025 edition of its “Top 200 Most Common Passwords” report, which once again highlights how risky many users’ password habits remain. The worst offenders? “123456” and “admin”, which continue to dominate globally.

In Nordpass' sixth edition covering the most used password, it's that annual year again where we get to read some hilarious passwords. In this edition, the company collaborated with NordStellar in analysing people's password habits and from the looks of it, nothing much has changed.

In an ongoing combat of phone scams, the Association of Banks in Malaysia (ABM) and the Association of Islamic Banking and Financial Institutions Malaysia (AIBIM) have issued a press release to remind the public that member banks will NEVER ask for sensitive customer information. This includes online banking usernames and passwords, and credit or debit card numbers via phone calls.

If you are a Malaysian, you might want to pay more attention to this news. Recently, NordPass revealed the 15 most used passwords in Malaysia. That said, is your password one of them?

It's not uncommon for people to use super easy and insecure passwords for their accounts online. However, the latest report by NordPass just discovered that more netizens are starting to use "Samsung" as their password.

We know sometimes it's not easy to remember passwords and sometimes it's also not good to have the same passwords across your accounts. Despite that, many people still put in lousy passwords such as "123456" which is still the most common one.

For many people, keeping one strong password for multiple websites isn't that unusual. But these days, it's actually considered bad practice, one that Google intends to change. To do so, the company wants to enforce 2-step-verification (2SV) for improved security.

By now, you would have read news about how 530 million Facebook user profiles were published online in an unsecured database. This includes the millions of Malaysian Facebook users and even Mark Zuckerberg himself as well. People were wondering how will Facebook respond to this and they just did, read on below on their comment.

If you run your own YouTube account, you should probably change your password often. Researchers have discovered an increase in demand for stolen YouTube credentials, which are being auctioned to other cybercriminals in hacker forums. These credentials include those for accounts running YouTube channel, meaning you could lose our hard-earned work if you change your login credentials soon.