The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

If there ever was such a thing as a cybersecurity silver bullet it would do one thing really well: eliminate passwords. Threat actors have proven to be endlessly clever at abusing and misusing passwords. So what’s stopping us from getting rid of passwords altogether? Passwords may have been very effective securing Roman roads.

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IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

It’s interesting to note that many people will happily unlock their phone by just looking at it and have no problem tapping their bank card against a store’s point of sale terminal, but if the term password security is presented to them, they have a blank expression, or worse, shrink away. So, it’s undoubtedly already out there.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 30, 2022

Four and a half years ago now, I rolled out version 2 of HIBP's Pwned Passwords that implemented a really cool k-anonymity model courtesy of the brains at Cloudflare. Actually, the multiple problems, the first of which is that it's just way too fast for storing user passwords in an online system. is the middle one.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 7, 2021

Password-based app access: convenient but risky. The other widely used convention by enterprises is to allow employees to login directly to cloud-based applications such as, (but not limited to) Office365, Slack, Agile, with passwords. Cloud-based access management and authentication. FIDO Authentication.

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