Choose to set up Windows 10 or 11 with a local account, and you're required to select three security questions to answer if you ever get locked out. Those questions include the typical ones, such as ...

Identity theft is on the minds of many Americans after hackers obtained the personal information of more than 145 million consumers in the Equifax data breach. By now, you've probably heard money ...

Everything needs an account these days. As someone who reviews apps and games professionally, I find it hard to discover an app or game that doesn't require login information to operate on your ...

Rae Hodge was a senior editor at CNET. She led CNET's coverage of privacy and cybersecurity tools from July 2019 to January 2023. As a data-driven investigative journalist on the software and services ...

Officially, Microsoft will stop providing new security updates for Windows 10 PCs after October 14, 2025, a little over a decade after its initial release. It’s a stick that Microsoft is using to push ...