Collaborate Disseminate
The developers of Kodi, the widely used open-source media player app, have revealed a data breach of its user forum. What happened? The breach did not happen due to a vulnerability. Instead, an unknown attacker used the account of a legitimate but inac… Continue reading Kodi forum breach: User data, encrypted passwords grabbed
Adversaries don’t need to use sophisticated methods to gain access to enterprise systems or to deploy ransomware – they can just buy or steal credentials and log in. By burdening users with the near-impossible task of maintaining “secure password… Continue reading Why it’s time to move towards a passwordless future
I bought a new Yubikey, and am currently setting it up to use on my desktop PC. Previously the PC was secured with password only, and I’d like to use the Yubikey as an alternative: instead of using the password, I could instead use the Yub… Continue reading Security of using Yubikey to derive Diceware password?
Im new to python but Ive created a couple of programs that can collect the user credentials for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge and decrypt them then save the decrypted output to .txt files.
I’ve bundled them all together… Continue reading Tool to Decrypt Chrome, Firefox and Edge login information [closed]
Im new to python but Ive created a couple of programs that can collect the user credentials for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge and decrypt them then save the decrypted output to .txt files.
I’ve bundled them all together… Continue reading Tool to Decrypt Chrome, Firefox and Edge login information [closed]
How do websites check that password hashes saved in the database are the same as passwords hashed and sent by a client?
I know that client-side hashing is not secure.
In this Help Net Security video, Kevin Muller, CEO at Passbolt, delves into the critical concerns linked to password usage, outlines how the Passbolt password manager guarantees the utmost level of security for businesses, highlights its features in th… Continue reading Passbolt: Open-source password manager for security-conscious organizations
While Argon2 seems to be recommended for password hashing, based on this twit Argon2 is worse than bcrypt at runtimes < 1000 ms.
Based on this answer:
You should tweak the parameters to your own use-case and performance
requirements, b… Continue reading Argon2 is worse than bcrypt at runtimes < 1000 ms? [duplicate]
Scenario:
The setup is that each user has a randomly generated key A used for encrypting data stored on the server and a password-derived key B used to store A on the server without the server getting access to A. So the server stores the … Continue reading How could one use multi-factor authentication to derive a static secret key?
In this Help Net Security interview, Tomasz Kowalski, CEO at Secfense emphasizes the significance of multi-factor authentication in the corporate landscape, highlights the use of microauthorizations to improve the security of protected applications, an… Continue reading Protect your entire business with the right authentication method