Security researchers recently claimed to have found a flaw that could allow threat actors to spoof Microsoft corporate emails. A cybersecurity researcher with the alias Slonser (full name Vsevolod Kokorin, according to TechCrunch) recently posted on X with a telling screenshot that appeared to show an email seemingly coming from the [email protected] email address. In […]
Although World Password Day, held annually on the first Thursday in May, has passed, our — and we hope your — fascination with password security continues. Instead of analyzing artificial “test-tube” passwords created for lab studies, we stayed in the real world — examining actual passwords leaked on the dark web. The results were alarming: […]
Two-factor authentication (2FA) with the use of one-time passwords (OTPs) is now often seen as a cure-all against phishing, social engineering, account theft, and other cyber-maladies. By requesting an OTP at login, the service in question provides an additional protective layer of user verification. The code can be generated in a special app directly on […]
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