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I’ve been using a Google Workspace account—paul@thurrott.com—as my primary online identity since before we launched Thurrott.com, and for the most part, I don’t have any major complaints. But there has long been one major downside to this account t… Continue reading Online Identities, Passwords, and Passkeys, Oh My (Premium)
Google Password Manager now supports additional authentication methods, password notes, easier importing from other password managers, and more.
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Malicious bots are taking new forms – a burst of spam and scam text messages led to 18,000+ consumer complaints at the FCC last year. One of the newest scams – artificial inflation of traffic (AIT) – targets the SMS authentication codes sent by the mob… Continue reading How fraudsters undermine text passcodes
I understand that when there are a possible characters and passwords must be of length n there are an possible passwords.
But usually passwords can vary in length between some minimum and maximum length. If the minimum length is k and the … Continue reading How does increasing minimum password length affect the size of password space?
Identity management company 1Password is spinning up a pair of new features that constitute a major shift away from passwords and toward their low-friction replacement: passkeys.
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In this article, I will explain how to auto login…
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I have a workflow like this right now:
User inputs the account email and clicks the "forget password" button
User receives an email containing a link with token for password reset
User clicks on that link, we check for that toke… Continue reading Would asking for user input email again in password reset increase security?
Admins can force users to reset their respective passwords during their next Windows 11 login by making a few simple changes on a difficult-to-find configuration screen.
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Building a custom cracking rig for research can be expensive, so penetration tester Max Ahartz built one on AWS. In this Help Net Security interview, he takes us through the process and unveils the details of his creation. What motivated you to underta… Continue reading Penetration tester develops AWS-based automated cracking rig
Consider a home user who runs Linux on a laptop with full-disk encryption and uses a cloud-based password manager. Assume the laptop is firewall-protected with no SSH access. It seems reasonable to reuse the same passphrase for the OS user… Continue reading What are the risks of reusing the same passphrase for FDE, user account, and password manager?