Authentication Operating Systems Software Transportation 
Phil Windley
MARCH 27, 2023
Summary: Passkeys, the popular name for FIDO, are not only easy, they offer better protection against phishing than other forms of multi-factor authentication. She's a security expert and focused many of her remarks on the relative security of different multi-factor authentication (MFA) techniques, a topic I cover in my book as well.
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) : Use an additional layer of authentication, such as a fingerprint or one-time code, to verify user identities. To ensure the security of your cloud applications, infrastructure, and operating systems, it’s important to schedule regular vulnerability scans and penetration tests.
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Phil Windley
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
The exchange of DIDs to form a connection with another party gives both parties a relationship that is self-certifying and mutually authenticated. DIDComm messages are exchanged between software agents that act on behalf of the people or organizations that control them. Transport-agnostic. DID Communications Protocol.
SecureWorld News
JULY 7, 2022
This can show "good faith" from the ransomware group by allowing targeting and recovery of just sensitive files and not having to rebuild the entire server if the Operating System files are encrypted as well. Nobody wants to be part of the organization that got hacked because they simply forgot to update their software.
ForAllSecure
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Jonathan Knudsen from Synopsys joins The Hacker Mind to discuss his presentation at SecTor 2021 on fuzzing message brokers such as RabbitMQ and VerneMQ, both written in Erlang, demonstrating that any type of software in any environment can still be vulnerable. Let's give the software badly formed or invalid inputs. Knudsen: Absolutely.
ForAllSecure
APRIL 22, 2021
In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. It seemed that once you authenticated through the local network, the app maintain that access, even if you are halfway across the world.
ForAllSecure
APRIL 22, 2021
In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. It seemed that once you authenticated through the local network, the app maintain that access, even if you are halfway across the world.
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