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Only 28% of financial workforce MFA is phishing-resistant

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Only 28% of financial workforce MFA is phishing-resistant 2026-07-10 at 08:41 By Anamarija Pogorelec Passwords remain part of many workforce authentication flows in financial organizations, making phishing and credential theft major identity security risks, according to a new Secret Double Octopus report. Key challenges preventing universal implementation of phishing-resistant MFA (Source: Secret Double Octopus) Workforce […]

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AWS gives its ERP agent deny-by-default rules and a separate identity

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AWS gives its ERP agent deny-by-default rules and a separate identity 2026-07-10 at 08:00 By Sinisa Markovic Accounts receivable teams at large companies spend hours each day matching incoming bank payments to invoices by hand. When those payments sit unmatched for days, cash flow suffers and days sales outstanding climbs. The same pattern repeats across

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Non-interactive SSH attacks dominate after login

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Non-interactive SSH attacks dominate after login 2026-07-03 at 08:30 By Sinisa Markovic Anyone who runs a server with SSH exposed to the internet sees the same pattern in the logs. A steady stream of automated scanners tries to log in, hour after hour, from addresses all over the world. The common picture of what comes

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Securing digital keys when your phone unlocks the car

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Securing digital keys when your phone unlocks the car 2026-06-18 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Alysia Johnson, President of the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), explains how the CCC Digital Key has grown from a single-brand feature into a standard meant to work across phones, automakers, and suppliers. She

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China-linked spies backdoored authentication stack to stay hidden for years

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China-linked spies backdoored authentication stack to stay hidden for years 2026-06-15 at 18:27 By Zeljka Zorz A China-linked cyber espionage group known as Velvet Ant spent nearly a decade inside the internal network of an unnamed organization without being detected, according to the results of a forensic investigation published by cybersecurity firm Sygnia. The group’s

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Apple Intelligence can now replace weak passwords without user intervention

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Apple Intelligence can now replace weak passwords without user intervention 2026-06-09 at 15:21 By Anamarija Pogorelec Apple’s next generation of Apple Intelligence, the company’s personal intelligence system, expands its capabilities and introduces new security features in Passwords. Automatically Fix Passwords (Source: Apple) Introduced as a standalone app in 2024, Passwords gives users a central place

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Let’s Encrypt works toward post-quantum certificates at web scale

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Let’s Encrypt works toward post-quantum certificates at web scale 2026-06-05 at 15:49 By Anamarija Pogorelec Let’s Encrypt plans to pursue a post-quantum-safe Web PKI through Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs), a new approach that adds post-quantum authentication to the web without sacrificing the speed and reliability that have made TLS universal. The project is targeting late

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Thieves can pull off keyless car theft in under a minute and here’s how to stop them

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Thieves can pull off keyless car theft in under a minute and here’s how to stop them 2026-06-05 at 09:24 By Mirko Zorz A keyless car can be stolen in under a minute. Two people, a pair of cheap radio amplifiers, and a fob sitting on a hallway table inside the house. That is enough.

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Microsoft Entra pushes passkeys, tightens identity security

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Microsoft Entra pushes passkeys, tightens identity security 2026-06-02 at 15:47 By Anamarija Pogorelec Microsoft has released multiple identity and network access capabilities for Entra, its family of identity and network access products that help organizations implement a zero trust security strategy, over the last 30 days. Features reaching general availability Identity and authentication updates Phishing-resistant

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The new economics of fraud: Cheaper, faster, more convincing

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The new economics of fraud: Cheaper, faster, more convincing 2026-05-22 at 08:29 By Anamarija Pogorelec Scams have become one of the fastest-growing consumer risks, driven by AI-enabled impersonation, social engineering, and sophisticated attack methods, according to Visa’s Spring 2026 Biannual Threats Report. Criminals redirect efforts toward trust and third parties Fraud involves behavioral manipulation, fragmented

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7 hard truths security pros should know: 2026 DevOps Threats Report

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7 hard truths security pros should know: 2026 DevOps Threats Report 2026-05-20 at 09:34 By Help Net Security In 2025, trusted Git hosting platforms became a playground for cyber criminals. This is the main conclusion from the latest “DevOps Threat Unwrapped Report 2026” by GitProtect. If you want to effectively counter attacks targeted at your

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What happens when your identity provider becomes the kill chain

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What happens when your identity provider becomes the kill chain 2026-05-20 at 09:34 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Colin Constable, CTO at Atsign, explains why your identity provider (IdP) has become the kill chain in cyberattacks. Attackers steal session cookies, tokens, or consent grants you’ve already issued and walk in

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Earbud sensors can authenticate users by their heartbeat, study finds

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Earbud sensors can authenticate users by their heartbeat, study finds 2026-05-19 at 09:17 By Mirko Zorz Researchers built a continuous authentication system called AccLock that identifies a wearer by the tiny vibrations a heartbeat makes inside the ear canal. The signal comes from an accelerometer of the kind already sitting inside many wireless earbuds, so

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ChatGPT advanced account security adds passkeys and hardware keys

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ChatGPT advanced account security adds passkeys and hardware keys 2026-05-04 at 02:31 By Anamarija Pogorelec Journalists, elected officials, researchers, and political dissidents have spent years adapting their accounts to phishing-resistant authentication on consumer platforms. ChatGPT now joins that list. OpenAI has introduced Advanced Account Security, an opt-in setting that strips password-based sign-in from ChatGPT and

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FIDO Alliance wants to keep AI agents from going rogue on online payments

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FIDO Alliance wants to keep AI agents from going rogue on online payments 2026-04-29 at 05:30 By Sinisa Markovic AI agents are beginning to shop, log in, and complete tasks with little direct input. That shift is pushing the security industry to rethink how trust works when actions are carried out on a user’s behalf.

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Your IAM was built for humans, AI agents don’t care

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Your IAM was built for humans, AI agents don’t care 2026-04-27 at 11:18 By Help Net Security Identity and access management was built for a simpler world. One where the hardest problem was a human logging in, and where “Who are you?” was sufficient to decide what someone could do. That model served enterprises well

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Users advised to drop passwords and make room for passkeys

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Users advised to drop passwords and make room for passkeys 2026-04-24 at 23:26 By Sinisa Markovic In a decisive move that could reshape how users log in online, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is urging consumers to abandon passwords in favour of passkeys, positioning them as the future of authentication. “Passkeys should become consumers’

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Google brings instant email verification to Android, no OTP needed

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Google brings instant email verification to Android, no OTP needed 2026-04-23 at 15:10 By Anamarija Pogorelec Google has introduced cryptographically verified email credentials for Android through the Credential Manager API. This API aligns with the W3C Digital Credential API standard. It provides a unified way for apps to request and retrieve user credentials for authentication

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