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A survey report from Daon shows 92% of consumers believe that cybersecurity threats will continue to outpace cybersecurity technology, with 91% willing to take extra security measures to prove their identity on an ongoing basis to protect their informa… Continue reading The emergence of zero trust consumers
Twitter is having intermittent problems with its two-factor authentication system:
Not all users are having problems receiving SMS authentication codes, and those who rely on an authenticator app or physical authentication token to secure their Twitter account may not have reason to test the mechanism. But users have been self-reporting issues on Twitter since the weekend, and WIRED confirmed that on at least some accounts, authentication texts are hours delayed or not coming at all. The meltdown comes less than two weeks after Twitter laid off about half of its workers…
Continue reading Failures in Twitter’s Two-Factor Authentication System
Specops Software released a research analyzing the top passwords used in live attacks against Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports. This analysis coincides with the latest addition of over 34 million compromised passwords to the Specops Breached Passwor… Continue reading Top passwords used in RDP brute-force attacks
Microsoft’s Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) is a legacy Windows… Continue reading How to use LAPS to Manage Local Admin Account Passwords in Active Directory and Azure AD
Context: I’m trying to design an SRS solution for your personal secrets – "Anki for passwords." (This is mostly a learning-exercise, to help me develop my intuition for writing secure(-ish?) code, and to explore the problem-spac… Continue reading Is there a way to store a verification-hash of a secret on a ‘consumer HSM’ like Yubikey or another WebAuthn device?
LastPass released findings from its fifth annual Psychology of Password report, which revealed even with cybersecurity education on the rise, password hygiene has not improved. Regardless of generational differences across Boomers, Millennials and Gen … Continue reading False sense of safety undermines good password hygiene
Bitwarden announced the results of its 2023 Password Decisions Survey, which polled 800 IT decision makers across a wide range of industries, showing that passwordless technology is here to stay, with businesses enthusiastic about its perceived securit… Continue reading Businesses want technologies that allow for passwordless workflows
When I got to 192.168.0.1/login I am greeted with my router login page and can go change some settings. Now let’s say I still have the factory default login something like "admin", "admin".
Can an attacker exploit this … Continue reading Why does having default router credentials pose a risk? [duplicate]
The other day I was asked by a friend to change their forgotten root password of their Linux server.
I have done this procedure many times without a problem, but this time something strange happened and I need an explanation for it.
What I… Continue reading Everytime we restart the Linux serever it looks like the root gets a new password hash [migrated]
There has been many discussions about this topic on this website. But mostly outdated. I wanted to draw your attention back to this. Although nothing has changed, but I can’t come up with any reasons to not use TOTP as a replacement for pa… Continue reading Use TOTP as a single factor authentication [closed]