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

The Last Watchdog

Perhaps not coincidently, it comes at a time when enterprises have begun adopting passwordless authentication systems in mission-critical parts of their internal operations. Fortifications, such as multi-factor authentication (MFA) and password managers, proved to be mere speed bumps. Coming advances.

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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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MY TAKE: New tech standards, like ‘Matter’ and ‘BIMI,’ point the way to secure interoperability

The Last Watchdog

This is precisely what the consortium of software companies and device manufacturers, led Google, Amazon and Apple, set out to achieve when Matter was conceived four years ago. Matter works much the way website authentication and website traffic encryption gets executed. This same approach really could be applied to other industries.

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Q&A: Here’s how the ‘Matter’ protocol will soon reduce vulnerabilities in smart home devices

The Last Watchdog

It also represents digital trust [insert the way we are defining DT] between all compliant devices from different manufacturers. Nelson: The security challenges present in many smart home devices include device identity, proper authentication (user and device), confidentiality of sensitive data, and integrity of software.

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To Make the Internet of Things Safe, Start with Manufacturing

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As an increasing number of connected devices are deployed within IoT ecosystems, enterprises need to identify and authenticate them. Typically, when they are manufactured, IoT devices receive their initial identity in the form of a “digital birth certificate.” Controlling Production Runs. This leads us to the second step.

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Critical Vulnerabilities in GPS Trackers

Schneier on Security

The researchers who performed the assessment believe the same critical vulnerabilities are present in other Micodus tracker models. The China-based manufacturer says 1.5 BitSight and CISA finally went public with the findings on Tuesday after trying for months to privately engage with the manufacturer.

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SHARED INTEL: Poll shows companies pursuing ‘Digital Trust’ reap benefits as laggards fall behind

The Last Watchdog

DigiCert’s survey presents hard evidence that trust can be the basis of a winning business model. Since it was introduced two years ago, Matter has been embraced by some 400 manufacturers of IoT devices and close to one million Matter certificates have been issued, Nelson told me. It’s not just in smart homes,” he says.