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Passwords Are Ruining the Web

Phil Windley

Summary: Passwords are ruining the web with awful, lengthy, and inconsistent user experiences. If you hate passwords, build the world you want to live in. You open up your password manager (a few clicks) and fill the username and only then does it show you the password field 1. They're insecure and lead to data breaches.

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Adding Security Keys to Your Authentication Toolbox

SecureWorld News

Then, you enter your password and that's that. A quick caveat is that I tried to do my testing while having a password manager as an extension in my browser (Mozilla Firefox). I found that having the password manager enabled messed up the key registration process occasionally because it will try to store the key as it would a password.

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Ingenious Phishing Tactics in the Modern Scammer's Toolbox

SecureWorld News

This hoax involves what's called a captive portal, which is a web page that prompts users to enter personal information or login credentials, such as usernames and passwords. The catch was that the document contained a function to transform these gibberish-looking symbols into hexadecimal values that denoted specific JavaScript tags.

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Are You Paying for Crytpominers to Use Your Cloud?

SecureWorld News

The report was published by Google's Cybersecurity Action Team and is based on observations from its Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and other internal teams. Google provides the top five exploited vulnerabilities in cloud instances and how frequently they are exploited: Weak or no password for user account or no authentication for APIs; 48%.

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CS2 IP leak exploit: Counter-Strike 2 HTML bug put players at risk

Dataconomy

Abuse of kick voting panel : Exploiters abused this vulnerability by injecting HTML code, typically in the form of an image tag (<img>), into the kick voting panel. IP logging script : Malicious users leveraged the <img> tag to trigger a remote IP logger script.

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The best features of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that Apple didn’t announce onstage

The Verge

Macs are complex machines, though, and there are a few more fun and useful things that will be coming in the fall: The ability to use your Memoji as your user profile picture (it’ll even shake its head if you try to log in with the wrong password). The ability to manage your saved passwords in System Preferences.

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Web 2.0 is Collapsing Under its Own Weight

Phil Windley

And even with a password manager, the act of logging in is often a chore with different user interfaces, custom MFA requirements, and weird rules for passwords. More and more of the email I receive seems to be simply directing me to log into some bespoke system to retrieve a message or engage in some workflow.

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