The Raspberry Pi Foundation, the organisation behind the wildly popular eponymous computing platform, is rolling out a small but impactful security policy update, eliminating default usernames to cut ...

The developers behind Raspberry Pi have enhanced security by forcing users to choose a new username and password on start-up. Senior principal software engineer, Simon Long, explained in a blog post ...

An update to Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye has removed the default 'pi' user to make it harder for attackers to find and compromise Internet-exposed Raspberry Pi devices using default credentials. Starting ...

Since its launch, the Raspberry Pi OS (and most operating systems based on it) has shipped with a default “pi” user account, making it simpler to boot up a Pi and start working without needing to hook ...

As a point of reference, I get shitloads of attacks on my server, bots trying to log in using the name "pi". I get dozens or hundreds of "pi" login attempts a day. I also get attempted logins from ...

Security experts have called on Raspberry and Linux users to change default passwords on their machines as new data revealed the extent of bot-driven attempts to hijack systems. Cybersecurity vendor ...