The trackers, advertised for children and the elderly, are being used in the US, Europe and elsewhere. And they've got some serious security issues. Alfred Ng Senior Reporter / CNET News Alfred Ng was ...

For all the talk of rising cyber-threats, digital sophistication and the inexorable march of artificial intelligence, one thing remains disconcertingly primitive: the passwords people choose to ...

Facepalm: It's almost 2026 and the world's population has never been so tech-savvy. When it comes to passwords, however, a lot of people are stuck in the 1990s. Another study examining the most common ...

CompariTech on Thursday released a report detailing the most-used passwords of 2025, which reveals that "123456" is the worst password of the year. More than 7.61 million accounts out of 2 billion ...

Take on the role of Annie, a low level employee of the SCP Foundation, A covert organization meant to secure and contain anomalous entities and protect the general public. Why has an organization with ...

Just like old wine in a new bottle, an old meme has gotten an analog horror makeover with the SCP-67 kid. The trend has gone viral on TikTok with several versions showing the character with his mouth ...

- Security researchers Ian Carroll and Sam Curry discovered McDonald's AI hiring platform was protected by the feeble password "123456." Walmart deploys millions of new sensors in retail's first large ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. McHire, developed by Paradox.ai, handles recruitment for McDonald’s franchisees across the system. The platform collects ...

Cybersecurity researchers discovered a vulnerability in McHire, McDonald's chatbot job application platform, that exposed the chats of more than 64 million job applications across the United States.

Security researchers found that they could access the personal information of 64 million people who had applied for a job at McDonald’s, in large part by logging into the company’s AI job hiring ...

A security flaw in McHire allowed access to sensitive applicant data via default admin credentials and a vulnerable API. The issue was patched swiftly after disclosure. A security oversight in ...