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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
This Safari vulnerability has not been exploited in the wild. Apple offers a mitigation, but the fix needs to be enabled manually. Continue reading Apple Vulnerability Can Expose iOS and macOS Passwords, Safari Browsing History
Despite widespread usage of passwords lingering on, consumers want to use stronger, more user-friendly alternatives, according to FIDO Alliance. Entering a password manually without any form of additional authentication was the most commonly used authe… Continue reading Legacy authentication leads to growing consumer frustration
When I try to guess the password for my Gmail email using the Hydra tool, no results appear, even though the password is in the wordlist. This is the command used.
hydra -l *******@gmail.com -P pass.lst -s 465 -S -v -V -t 1 smtp.gmail.com … Continue reading When I try to guess the password for my email using the Hydra tool, no result appears [closed]
Businesses are actively moving to eradicate passwords from employees’ lives, with 89% of IT leaders expecting passwords to represent less than a quarter of their organization’s logins within five years or less, according to a FIDO Alliance and La… Continue reading Anticipating the benefits of a passwordless tomorrow
This feature is enabled by default. It says the usernames and passwords would be encrypted before sending to google. But google would know the encryption keys it used and to compare it with leaked username/password combinations the google … Continue reading How does Google Chrome’s "Warn you if passwords are exposed in a data breach" feature work?
There’s a new Cisco vulnerability in its Emergency Responder product:
This vulnerability is due to the presence of static user credentials for the root account that are typically reserved for use during development. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using the account to log in to an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to log in to the affected system and execute arbitrary commands as the root user.
This is not the first time Cisco products have had hard-coded passwords made public. You’d think it would learn…
Continue reading Cisco Can’t Stop Using Hard-Coded Passwords
As the landscape of online security continues to evolve, there is a noticeable shift in people’s perceptions of cybersecurity, with an increasing awareness of its vital role in staying safe online, according to a survey conducted by the National … Continue reading Incentivizing secure online behavior across generations
Question:
I am working on a password-based file encryption and decryption system in Python using the PBKDF2 key derivation function and Fernet encryption. I have a specific requirement: I want to verify a user’s password without storing th… Continue reading Verification of Password without Storing Hash – Security Considerations
One in three employees believe their actions do not impact their organization’s security, according to Ivanti. Unsafe cybersecurity habits among office workers The research also shows that Millennial and Gen Z office workers are more likely to have uns… Continue reading Poor cybersecurity habits are common among younger employees