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What a security leader should tell the CEO about leaked credentials
In this Help Net Security interview, Eric Fourrier, CEO of GitGuardian, talks about leaked credentials and personal liability for security leaders and boards. He explains how …
Byoky: Open-source wallet for AI API keys
Byoky is an open-source wallet for AI API keys, available as a Chrome and Firefox extension and as iOS and Android apps. Users store their keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google …
Scammers rebuild fake shopping sites within hours of a takedown
One retail scam used more than 1,200 look-alike .shop domains sharing a single IP address. The sites reused HTML, JavaScript and payment-page designs intended to harvest card …
IT bosses are confident they’ve found the certificates they don’t know about
Forty percent of 500 senior IT and security leaders surveyed for certificate authority Sectigo said they are very prepared for monthly TLS certificate renewals because …
Synthetic identities leave US lenders with $2.4 billion in fraud exposure
Criminals are exploiting established customer accounts and familiar brands to steal money and personal information, according to TransUnion’s Fraud in the Age of Continuous …
Your frontline workers have a workaround for that MFA prompt
Frontline workers in healthcare and manufacturing are getting around slow, unreliable logins by staying signed in, sharing credentials and trying to bypass multifactor …
The people who know passkeys best are still typing passwords
Yubico and Okta asked 1,890 technology and security professionals across nine countries how they sign in to work accounts. The most common answer was a username and password, …
Authorizer: Open-source authentication and authorization for your apps
Authorizer is an open-source server for sign-in and access control in web and mobile apps. Teams run it on their own infrastructure and keep user accounts in a database they …
Your passkeys can now move between password managers on Android
Google turned on a transfer feature in Android that moves passwords and passkeys straight from one password manager to another, with no file to download along the way. You …
An AI CAPTCHA solver talked itself out of the right answer
You have probably spent a few seconds of your life turning a picture until it lines up. Some sites, instead of asking you to tick a box, show you a circular chunk of a photo …
Post-quantum migration gets harder when every user holds a key
In this Help Net Security interview, Christopher Smith, CEO of Quantus, discusses what cryptographic inventories turn up in banks and hospitals, including default passwords …
Microsoft Entra ID is removing an extra MFA hurdle for Windows Hello and macOS PSSO users
Microsoft is changing how Entra ID handles MFA for people who sign in with Windows Hello for Business (WHfB) or macOS Platform Single Sign-On (PSSO). The rollout reaches …
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