Heimadal Security

MAY 23, 2023

Thus, in the attempt of preventing unauthorized third parties from accessing their accounts and sensitive data, companies are increasingly turning to biometric authentication.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Much more effective authentication is needed to help protect our digital environment – and make user sessions smoother and much more secure. Underscoring this trend, Uber was recently hacked — through its authentication system. The best possible answer is coming from biometrics-based passwordless, continuous authentication.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 31, 2022

They have since been modified in two directions: biometrics and dynamic passwords. This has led to two branches of modifications: biometrics and dynamic passwords. Biometrics. However, the digital representation of biometric data is nothing more than a complex static password. Related : The coming of password-less access.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Epic’s new flagship EPCS healthcare management mobile apps Haiku and Canto integrate with Cisco Duo to provide multi-factor authentication (MFA). Duo integrates with Epic Haiku and Canto mobile apps seamlessly to provide a strong second authentication factor to protect patient electronic health records.

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Heimadal Security

MARCH 10, 2022

Biometric information helps people access systems and secure devices more easily. According to a new report, hackers start to become aware of the value of this kind of info like iris scans, fingerprint authentication, or facial recognition and might begin to exploit it. However, it might become a target for threat actors.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Until recently I thought we had a lot of time ahead of us to be secure in using biometrics to authenticate who I am and what I should have access to. The post The Coming End of Biometrics Hastens AI-Driven Security appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

It only took a week : On Friday, Vietnamese security firm Bkav released a blog post and video showing that -- by all appearances -- they'd cracked FaceID with a composite mask of 3-D-printed plastic, silicone, makeup, and simple paper cutouts, which in combination tricked an iPhone X into unlocking. FAQ from the researchers.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 3, 2023

It involves verifying user identities, controlling access to resources and ensuring proper authentication and authorization processes. Traditional authentication is dependent on managed hardware, software or network controls. This can only be done when access management is done with the identity itself.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Remote Users The web authentication process begins when the remote user wants to connect to an application. Users need to be trained since they’re a new way of authentication, but typically users can enroll or manage them through a UI-driven workflow by themselves. We'll also talk about areas of improvement for passkeys.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 1, 2021

Part of our Administrator's Guide to Passwordless blog series See the video at the blog post. The most critical difference is the context in which it is used for authentication in WebAuthn. By enforcing local authentication via PIN, we effectively force remote attackers to “walk” to each account they want to hack.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 12, 2023

Before we can discuss passkeys, we need to lay some groundwork and discuss authentication, Passwordless and WebAuthn. What is authentication? Authentication is the process of verifying your online identity. We added multi-factor authentication (MFA) – something you know and something you have or are. What is passwordless?

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

At Duo, we're building a passwordless authentication solution that’s as easy to set up as it is to use – with our world-class security baked in. See the video at the blog post. Your Journey Begins with Multi-Factor Authentication See the video at the blog post. No Phishing, Please See the video at the blog post.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

How do you keep employees and customers engaged while at the same time employing a level of authentication superior to passwords and other knowledge-based methods? As a result, authentication processes have often become cumbersome journeys to be dreaded by employees and ….

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 4, 2023

See the video at the blog post. Passwordless is this next paradigm in authentication where we don’t have to rely on human-created passwords and credentials. I’m going straight to that second factor where you interact with a key or a biometric device in order to log into the site.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 8, 2021

As we stated in a previous blog , biometric bank cards are a strong trend defining the future of payments. Whether it’s the enhanced security, the sleek and simple customer experience or the smooth enrolment process, biometric bank cards will soon set the precedent of what the payment process should look like. How do they work?

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

When someone is told that passwords are going away in favor of a new, “password-less” authentication method, a healthy dose of skepticism is not unwarranted. Passwordless authentication refers to a system that does not require the use of passwords at all. What is WebAuthn?

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Recently, attackers have targeted multi-factor authentication (MFA). Even if an attacker has access to a username and password, they still need access to the second authentication factor to break into the organization. a biometric) and “something you have” (e.g., However, attackers are finding ways around MFA. a device).

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Google Security

MAY 5, 2023

Passkeys are a new, passwordless authentication method that offer a convenient authentication experience for sites and apps, using just a fingerprint, face scan or other screen lock. Learn more on how passkey works under the hood in our Google Security Blog. Figure 1: authentication success rate with passkey vs password.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Researchers have found several weaknesses in Windows Hello fingerprint authentication on Dell Inspiron 15, Lenovo ThinkPad T14, and Microsoft Surface Pro X laptops. They found vulnerabilities that allowed them to completely bypass Windows Hello authentication on all three. The input has to be authenticated.

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Heimadal Security

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The 2FA technique, often known as two-factor authentication, is essentially a two-step verification, as the name suggests. Users log in using two authentication factors: one can be a password or a passcode, while the other can be a biometric factor (such as a facial scan or fingerprints) or a security token.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 23, 2023

Passwords are a weak point in modern-day secure authentication practices, with Verizon highlighting that almost 50% of breaches start with compromised credentials. Until a fully password-free environment is deployed, accepted, and adopted by all users, less secure methods of authentication will still be relied on.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Passwordless is a sea change in authentication. Passwordless authentication provides the rare opportunity to increase our access security drastically while simultaneously improving the user experience — a compelling prospect! See the video at the blog post. Users can also enroll multiple passwordless authenticators.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Once you’ve done that though, a critical next step is answering this question: Once you remove the password, what exactly are users going to use to authenticate? Evaluating your authentication options Duo has always focused on providing a variety of authentication options for end users.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This traditional authentication method is challenging to get rid of, mostly because it’s so common. And for businesses, transitioning to new authentication solutions can be expensive and time-consuming. It supports standards that make implementing newer, stronger authentication methods possible for businesses.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 23, 2024

When reading the title of this blog, you might be wondering to yourself why RADIUS is being highlighted as a subject — especially amidst all of the advancements of modern authentication we see taking place recently. Instead, it supports a variety of authentication protocols , including EAP, PAP, CHAP, and others. What is RADIUS?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Implement Passwordless Strong Authentication Strong authentication is crucial in enhancing cybersecurity. Passwordless authentication relies on alternative methods, such as biometrics, one-time passcodes, or smart cards, to verify a user's identity.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Problem 1: From Physical to Digital Space Christi Volny, a senior software engineer on the Duo Single Sign-On platform at Cisco Secure: “The primary difference between password and passwordless authentication is that password authentication is based on the user remembering some secret. That’s a problem with the name [.]

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Google Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

This blog post outlines recent improvements around how users interact with the lockscreen on Android devices and more generally with authentication. The model itself is fairly simple, classifying authentication modalities into three buckets of decreasing levels of security and commensurately increasing constraints.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. Image: Cloudflare.com. ” On July 28 and again on Aug. In an Aug.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 8, 2021

In this blog, I am joined by my colleague Pauline Pinzuti, Marketing Manager to discuss how the use of voice biometrics can help telecom operators fight ID fraud. Looking ahead, we know that biometric authentication is an effective and convenient way to identify individuals. So how does voice biometric analysis work?

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In February, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about a novel cybercrime service that helped attackers intercept the one-time passwords (OTPs) that many websites require as a second authentication factor in addition to passwords. That is true two-factor authentication: Something you have, and something you know (and maybe also even something you are).

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Adoption of two-factor authentication has substantially increased since we began conducting this research in 2017. SMS Text Message Remains the Most Used Authentication Method SMS (85%) continues to be the most common second factor that respondents with 2FA experience have used, slightly up from in 2019 (72%).

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In our recent passkey blog series , we’ve been unpacking the difference between new passkey technology and more conventional password security in light of some of the most critical authentication scenarios. They can also be used on other devices through QR code-based “hybrid” authentication. That’s where passkeys come in.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a well-known and well-established protection that many organizations rely on. Several common authentication methods include the use of one-time passcodes (OTP). Passwordless authentication, which uses WebAuthn credentials, is another safe alternative to OTP.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Ensure access from devices you trust: Reinforce your users by combining strong authentication requirements with device trust policies. Remove passwords from the equation: Duo’s Passwordless solution, powered by WebAuthn technology, requires a biometric at login, rather than a password. If it is, access is granted.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 13, 2018

Just before jumping on the plane over here I pushed out a blog post on how my approach to callbacks in HIBP broke Mozilla's service which in turn broke my Azure Function. I'm here doing a couple of speaking events and other related things as well as taking some time out with my wife to see the sites.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In this blog, we’ll discuss some of the ways you can use MFA and features like Duo’s Trusted Endpoints to protect against MFA bypass attacks. MFA bypass attacks are techniques attackers use to circumvent the additional layers of security that multi-factor authentication provides. What is an MFA bypass attack?

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