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In this Help Net Security interview, Julianna Lamb, Stytch CTO, discusses the advantages of passwordless authentication. Eliminating passwords reduces data breaches and improves user experience by simplifying the login process. Lamb also addresses the … Continue reading From passwords to passkeys: Enhancing security and user satisfaction
The 2022 Medibank data breach / extortion attack perpetrated by the REvil ransomware group started by the attackers leveraging login credentials stolen from a private computer of an employee of a Medibank’s IT contractor. According to a statement… Continue reading Medibank breach: Security failures revealed (lack of MFA among them)
I am working on a application which requires session token to commence trading activities. This will be hosted on a cloud based Linux VM (Ubuntu) and a managed MySQL database.
Session token are generated using a TOTP. I have build this app… Continue reading Storing TOTP keys
LendingTree subsidiary QuoteWizard and automotive parts provider Advance Auto Parts have been revealed as victims of attackers who are trying to sell data stolen from Snowflake-hosted cloud databases. Snowflake says that their investigation is still on… Continue reading The number of known Snowflake customer data breaches is rising
A new trove of 361 million email addresses has been added to Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP), the free online service through which users can check whether their account credentials and other data has been compromised in one or more data breaches. Have I Bee… Continue reading 361 million account credentials leaked on Telegram: Are yours among them?
I have a Samsung A14, that is locked and needs me to enter in the password and email that was last used. I was given the phone because it couldn’t be fixed. I have tried factory resetting it with the hard reset key sequence, but it still w… Continue reading Samsung A14 unlocking without google credentials [migrated]
Have attackers compromised Snowflake or just their customers’ accounts and databases? Conflicting claims muddy the situation. What is Snowflake? Snowflake is cloud-based data storage and analytics company based in the US, and claims nearly 9,500 … Continue reading Snowflake compromised? Attackers exploit stolen credentials
Rather than accepting money transfer via something like Venmo, I would prefer that someone simply makes payments into my credit (card) account. Can this be securely set up so that they send a payment to my account without them knowing my C… Continue reading Can I securely allow someone to make payment into my CC account? [migrated]
Compared to the last quarter of 2023, data breaches rose from 81M to 435M in Q1 2024. That’s a 5-fold increase in just a few months. One of the most common ways data breaches happen is through apps like Facebook or Instagram, which collect a lot of use… Continue reading Product showcase: Alert – Data breach detector for your email, credit card, and ID
At my organization we have a lot of servers. We have many common manual maintenance tasks that we’d like to automate. There’s currently three approaches we’re fighting over internally:
Ops engineers with access to most if not all servers … Continue reading Are centralized credentials an antipattern?