I’m in. I have written about passwordlessness (I probably made that word up!) before. Eliminating the password makes it much harder for threat actors to compromise your security, exploit stolen credentials and gain unauthorised access to systems such as Microsoft and now Google: Google adds passkeys support for passwordless sign-in …
Pass Word Cracking with AI
Well no. I built a password cracking system as part of my University course, it was not very powerful and passwords beyond five characters took forever t crack, but it proved the point. The threat of quantum computing password cracking is out there on the horizon somewhere. That brings us …
Can we avoid the use of passwords?
I am reposting this article as I spent too much time yesterday, whilst on leave, convincing a business owner that they needed to implement Microsoft 365 multi-factor authentication for everyone. Passwords are not enough. Original Post Eventually yes: Something better than a password – Passwordless Authentication – CyberAwake
QakNote – OneNote malware now has name
I use OneNote a lot – so I had to follow up on my previous post about OneNote attachments being used as an attack vector. OneNote has become the threat actors new choice of attachment probably because Microsoft closed the door on macro attacks. In the wild, Microsoft OneNote’ .one’ …
Do not help that insider threat
I have written another article on our Cyber Security Awareness Training site, CyberAwake, looking at another aspect of password – in this case how sharing credentials can seriously compromise your cyber security: Credential Sharing and Passwordless – CyberAwake
