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What is the most secure way to share passwords by a user in one organization (say alice@alice.com) with another user in another Organization ( say bob@bob.com )
A trivial solution is alice@alice.com shares a common password via email in pl… Continue reading Securely Sharing passwords with Users external to Organization
The recent ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline is reportedly one of the most significant cyberattacks on the energy sector till date, and it has overwhelmed cybersecurity experts across the globe.
On April 29, 2… Continue reading The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack: Lessons for cybersecurity teams
Organization X stores your passwords as you save them. One would expect these saved passwords are stored away, unreadable. However, some major organizations now… let you read them?(See next paragraph). You can click a button to read your… Continue reading Why is the back-end "show password" ability considered a non-issue? [duplicate]
I have a Windows service that accesses a database connection. Since users rarely use Windows authentication, I encrypt the connection string. For development I have the password hard-coded, but I know this is a very bad idea. What is the p… Continue reading How should I store a password used by a service written in .NET
Learn about the most popular password attack vectors and how to manage, attack and counter them with insights from industry security experts.
The post The Password Management “Queen’s Gambit” — How to Manage It, Attack It, and Counter It appeared firs… Continue reading The Password Management “Queen’s Gambit” — How to Manage It, Attack It, and Counter It
I’m running a local web server on my Raspberry Pi and want to have a login screen. My plan is to hash the password and store the result in a text file ( This is where I’m storing settings for the result of the application ).
Is this the be… Continue reading Password hashing for local servers
Of the following two approaches, which is "more secure", under which circumstances, and why? In other words, please compare the security risks of these two approaches:
Log in to an OAuth provider such as Google or Facebook using… Continue reading Security risks of OAuth vs a password manager
Your eight-character password can be cracked in about eight hours, using brute force attacks — even if you add in numbers, mix up the cases and throw in a special character or three. Odds are high that eight-hour window will soon be even shorter. To combat this, many companies added multifactor authentication (MFA) into their […]
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What are the risks of using NFC on a YubiKey versus just a hard connector?
I imagine it would be possible to sniff some data off of these security keys? How real is the risk of sniffing and what could an attacker gain from such an attack (… Continue reading What are the security risks to NFC based YubiKeys?
A flood of data to the dark web in the last 12 months has kicked up the cybercrime risk of password reuse. Here’s how to protect your data.
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