As you’ll already know, today is World Passkey Day and the FIDO Alliance has released an independent study of over […]
Category: passwords
Move over passwords — every verification method has its day
The first day of May has numerous competitors for its patronage. It’s May Day, of course, and it’s International Labor […]
Windows RDP lets you log in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is OK with that.
The ability to use a revoked password to log in through RDP occurs when a Windows machine that’s signed in […]
Gen Z know the risks but still reuse passwords
A new survey of 2,300 adults worldwide reveals that 79 percent of Gen Z believe reusing the same password across […]
Increase in stolen identity records fuels cybercrime
A new report from SpyCloud highlights a 22 percent increase in stolen identity records since 2023. These identity records, consisting […]
The poor the bad and the terrible — popular passwords around the world
Passwords are an essential part of our digital lives, yet many people still use weak or simple combinations of letters […]
1Password offers geo-locating help for bad apps that constantly log you out
You could name things more sensibly in 1Password, of course, and you should. But having a list of nearby logins […]
12,000+ API Keys and Passwords Found in Public Datasets Used for LLM Training
A dataset used to train large language models (LLMs) has been found to contain nearly 12,000 live secrets, which allow […]
Google Password Manager finally syncs to iOS—here’s how
Late last year, I published a long post that criticized the user unfriendliness of passkeys, the industry-wide alternative to logging […]
Google Chrome may soon use “AI” to replace compromised passwords
Google’s Chrome browser might soon get a useful security upgrade: detecting passwords used in data breaches and then generating and […]