In password-based authentication, end-users confirm their identity using login credentials, commonly a unique username, and a secret password. These credentials allow the system to verify that the ...

Step-by-step guide to setting up two-factor authentication on Google, Apple, Microsoft, and social platforms for stronger account security.

Sixty percent of respondents hit by an authentication-related cyberattack in the last 12 months agreed that they could have avoided it with a passwordless system. shw Authentication-related attacks ...

The death of the password has been prophesied for years, but never quite seems to arrive. In recent years we've seen many attempts to design and implement the next generation of authentication ...

Cyber Essentials revised its password-based authentication requirements in 2022 in response to the ever-changing threat landscape. The changes highlight a shift towards tighter technical controls and ...

In “LastPass Publishes More Details about Its Data Breaches” (3 March 2023), I talked about how I decided to move my two-factor authentication (2FA) codes from Authy to 1Password and how the process ...

Since the dawn of the internet, passwords have been the most elementary of all authentication measures and have protected us and our data—to an extent. At the same time, experts in cybersecurity have ...

Last year, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) issued an alert that hackers were targeting organizations in the United States with a ­massive wave of attacks based on ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. I can’t help but think GitHub went a little too far with its removal of password based ...