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NEW TECH: ‘Passwordless authentication’ takes us closer to eliminating passwords as the weak link

The Last Watchdog

Related: The Internet of Things is just getting started The technology to get rid of passwords is readily available; advances in hardware token and biometric authenticators continue apace. The hitch, of course, is that password-enabled account logins are too deeply engrained in legacy network infrastructure.

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The Original APT: Advanced Persistent Teenagers

Krebs on Security

Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach. “These guys were not leet , just damn persistent.”