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MY TAKE: Businesses gravitate to ‘passwordless’ authentication — widespread consumer use up next

The Last Watchdog

Yet, the tech titans recently agreed to adopt a common set of standards supporting passwordless access to websites and apps. This is one giant leap towards getting rid of passwords entirely. Excising passwords as the security linchpin to digital services is long, long overdue. Our brains just won’t do it.”. Adoption scenarios.

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A Threat to Passkeys? BrutePrint Attack Bypasses Fingerprint Authentication

eSecurity Planet

Security researchers recently published a paper detailing an attack they say can be used to bypass smartphone fingerprint authentication. An attack like BrutePrint could present a significant threat to passkeys , an increasingly popular way to replace passwords with authentication methods like fingerprint authentication or face recognition.

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SHARED INTEL: Coming very soon — ‘passwordless authentication’ as a de facto security practice

The Last Watchdog

As a tradeoff for enjoying our digital lives, we’ve learned to live with password overload and even tolerate two-factor authentication. But now, at long last, we’re on the brink of eliminating passwords altogether, once and for all. Password tradeoffs Passwords have always been a big pain.

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Defense contractor Belcan leaks admin password with a list of flaws

Security Affairs

Belcan is a government, defense, and aerospace contractor offering global design, software, manufacturing, supply chain, information technology, and digital engineering solutions. However, hashes can still be cracked, and other authentication data may be used in spear phishing attacks.

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How to Secure Access for your Seasonal Workers

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

How to Secure Access for your Seasonal Workers. As the holiday season approaches, many retail, hospitality, logistics, and food manufacturing organizations hire seasonal workers to meet increasing demand. Access management risks of seasonal workers. The importance of effective access management. Mon, 11/21/2022 - 05:36.

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3.5m IP cameras exposed, with US in the lead

Security Affairs

Some of the most popular brands don’t enforce a strong password policy, meaning anyone can peer into their owners’ lives. All too often, this gives them a false sense of security: when in fact, threat actors can not only access and watch your camera feed but exploit the unsecured device to hack into your network.

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MY TAKE: Why IoT systems won’t be secure until each and every microservice is reliably authenticated

The Last Watchdog

First, the identities of any two digital entities – a sensor and a control server, for instance, or even a microservice and a container — must be authenticated, and, second, the data exchanged between any two such digital instances must be encrypted. What we’re seeing is pretty basic things around authentication.

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