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Password health and hygiene improved globally over the past year, reducing the risk of account takeover for consumers and businesses, according to Dashlane. Password reuse remains prevalent, however, leaving user accounts particularly vulnerable to pas… Continue reading How global password practices are changing
A threat actor is reportedly harvesting IAM credentials from public GitHub repositories within five minutes of exposure.
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As passwordless identity becomes mainstream, the term “passkey” is quickly becoming a new buzzword in cybersecurity. But what exactly is a passkey and why do we need them? A passkey is a digital credential that can only be used by the authorized user. … Continue reading How passkeys are changing the face of authentication
GitHub Actions provides a platform for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), enabling your build, test, and deployment process automation. It allows you to establish workflows that build and test each pull request in your repository a… Continue reading Securing GitHub Actions for a safer DevOps pipeline
FraudGPT is the evil counterpart to ChatGPT. Criminals use it to target businesses with phishing emails and scams with speed and accuracy like never before. The AI can be prompted to create the most realistic phishing emails, perfected down to a busine… Continue reading Protecting against FraudGPT, ChatGPT’s evil twin
In South Korea, I’ve seen a couple of public Wi-Fi networks advertise a "secure" option. Stickers on public buses in Seoul and the captive portal login page for unencrypted Wi-Fi instruct users to connect to a secure option (e.g…. Continue reading Using public WPA2 Enterprise credentials for public Wi-Fi
A recent study from Silverfort has identified the identity attack surface as today’s most substantial weakness in cybersecurity resilience. Traditional approaches, such as MFA and PAM, have notable limitations that can lead to the exploitation of… Continue reading Is your identity safe? Exploring the gaps in threat protection
One in three Americans now use password managers, up from one in five in 2022, according to an online poll by Security.org that quizzed 1,051 American adults on how they use passwords and password managers. How users choose and use password managers Us… Continue reading Never use your master password as a password on other accounts
Does anyone think the chances of surviving a plane crash increase if our tray tables are locked and our carry-on bags are completely stowed under our seats? That we’ll be OK if the plane hits a mountain if we have our seat belts buckled securely across… Continue reading Is the cybersecurity community’s obsession with compliance counter-productive?
In this Help Net Security interview, Florian Forster, CEO at Zitadel, discusses the challenges CISOs face in managing authentication across increasingly distributed and remote workforces, the negative consequences of ineffective authorization, and how … Continue reading Adapting authentication to a cloud-centric landscape