As companies "shift left" -- pushing more responsibility for security onto developers -- the tools that are available are falling short, usability researchers say.

When picking passwords, users often fall back on certain insecure patterns, but good habits can be learned using simple games, a group of researchers find.

Three fundamental technologies -- chatbots, audio fakes, and deepfake videos -- have improved to the point that creating digital, real-time clones of people is merely a matter of integrating the systems.

From Russia's "best-in-class" efforts at widening social divides in Western democracies to China's blunt attacks on dissidents, information operations are becoming a greater threat, says a Stanford researcher.