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Synthetic identities leave US lenders with $2.4 billion in fraud exposure

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Synthetic identities leave US lenders with $2.4 billion in fraud exposure 2026-10-26 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Criminals are exploiting established customer accounts and familiar brands to steal money and personal information, according to TransUnion’s Fraud in the Age of Continuous Trust report. Eighty-one percent of suspected digital fraud in its network during the first […]

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Your frontline workers have a workaround for that MFA prompt

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Your frontline workers have a workaround for that MFA prompt 2026-10-20 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Frontline workers in healthcare and manufacturing are getting around slow, unreliable logins by staying signed in, sharing credentials and trying to bypass multifactor authentication. Sapio Research surveyed 700 IT and security decision-makers in August, and 95% said they had […]

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The people who know passkeys best are still typing passwords

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The people who know passkeys best are still typing passwords 2026-10-08 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Yubico and Okta asked 1,890 technology and security professionals across nine countries how they sign in to work accounts. The most common answer was a username and password, at 43%, from a group in which 87% said they were […]

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Authorizer: Open-source authentication and authorization for your apps

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Authorizer: Open-source authentication and authorization for your apps 2026-09-28 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Authorizer is an open-source server for sign-in and access control in web and mobile apps. Teams run it on their own infrastructure and keep user accounts in a database they choose. Its maintainers have built a permissions engine and an interface […]

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Your passkeys can now move between password managers on Android

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Your passkeys can now move between password managers on Android 2026-09-10 at 19:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Google turned on a transfer feature in Android that moves passwords and passkeys straight from one password manager to another, with no file to download along the way. You start it from inside the app you are switching to, […]

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Post-quantum migration gets harder when every user holds a key

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Post-quantum migration gets harder when every user holds a key 2026-08-12 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Christopher Smith, CEO of Quantus, discusses what cryptographic inventories turn up in banks and hospitals, including default passwords and admin keys still held by former employees. He explains where post-quantum key sizes break […]

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Microsoft Entra ID is removing an extra MFA hurdle for Windows Hello and macOS PSSO users

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Microsoft Entra ID is removing an extra MFA hurdle for Windows Hello and macOS PSSO users 2026-08-10 at 16:19 By Sinisa Markovic Microsoft is changing how Entra ID handles MFA for people who sign in with Windows Hello for Business (WHfB) or macOS Platform Single Sign-On (PSSO). The rollout reaches worldwide and GCC tenants starting […]

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Exposed BMCs hand out password hashes before login

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Exposed BMCs hand out password hashes before login 2026-07-28 at 15:00 By Sinisa Markovic An attacker who reaches UDP port 623 on a server’s baseboard management controller can ask it for a password hash and receive one before logging in. The exchange is part of the IPMI 2.0 handshake, built on an authentication protocol introduced […]

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Claude can now sign into websites with 1Password without exposing your credentials

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Claude can now sign into websites with 1Password without exposing your credentials 2026-07-17 at 12:17 By Anamarija Pogorelec 1Password has introduced 1Password for Claude, a beta integration that lets Anthropic’s AI assistant complete browser tasks requiring authentication without accessing users’ passwords or other secrets. The integration is available to paid Claude subscribers (Pro, Max, Team, […]

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Microsoft makes Windows SSO prompts easier to manage

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Microsoft makes Windows SSO prompts easier to manage 2026-07-16 at 11:47 By Anamarija Pogorelec Microsoft is introducing a new registry-based policy that lets IT administrators automatically accept Windows SSO permissions on Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 devices managed with Microsoft Entra ID. Users with personal Microsoft accounts and devices outside policy-managed environments will continue […]

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Google adds FIDO2 keys and phone passkeys to Windows login via GCPW

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Google adds FIDO2 keys and phone passkeys to Windows login via GCPW 2026-07-14 at 13:35 By Anamarija Pogorelec Google has started rolling out FIDO2-compliant physical security key support as a second factor for authentication in Google Credential Provider for Windows (GCPW) to all Google Workspace customers. GCPW is a free tool that lets users sign […]

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Microsoft Entra ID authentication overhaul to start in September 2026

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Microsoft Entra ID authentication overhaul to start in September 2026 2026-07-14 at 11:49 By Anamarija Pogorelec Microsoft will begin rolling out passkeys as the default authentication experience for Microsoft Entra ID in the public cloud on September 1, 2026. Organizations with SMS or voice authentication enabled will automatically be enabled for passkeys. The next time […]

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Fake OAuth client IDs are helping attackers slip past sign-in logs

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Fake OAuth client IDs are helping attackers slip past sign-in logs 2026-07-13 at 15:10 By Mirko Zorz Attackers running account enumeration against Microsoft cloud tenants have added a step that keeps their probing out of the usual telemetry. They spoof the OAuth client ID, the globally unique identifier assigned to an application and passed as […]

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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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