Laura wrote about e-commerce and Amazon, and she occasionally covered cool science topics. Previously, she broke down cybersecurity and privacy issues for CNET readers. Laura is based in Tacoma, ...

For years, Netflix executives turned a blind eye toward a subset of its users that numbered in the tens of millions: They're the people who consumed Netflix content, but weren't paying for it. It was ...

Near-identical password reuse bypasses security policies, enabling attackers to exploit predictable patterns using breached ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the federal body that sets technology standards for governmental agencies, standards organizations, and private companies, has proposed ...

If your organization is like many, your employees may be relying on weak or easily guessable passwords — and inadvertently rolling out the red carpet for hackers and cybercriminals in the process. So ...