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Abstract: Biometrics have received significant attention as a result of the increasingly widespread adoption of biometric authentication systems by government and commercial organizations as an ...

Hamza is a certified Technical Support Engineer. A corrupted or incomplete installation of the Rockstar Games Social Club or the launcher can break the authentication process. Reinstalling removes ...

At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials from developers and publishes those secrets on ...

The recent mass-theft of authentication tokens from Salesloft, whose AI chatbot is used by a broad swath of corporate America to convert customer interaction into Salesforce leads, has left many ...

Is zero trust a bust? At the DEF CON 33 security conference, researchers from AmberWolf provided a scathing report on the state of zero trust, claiming that instead of 'never trust, always verify,' ...

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a leak of approximately 16 billion login credentials, exposing the passwords in the largest leak ever reported. Researchers with Cybernews were the first to ...

Motive and Telefónica have demonstrated a successful proof of concept (PoC) for phone number verification using the GSMA Open Gateway’s Number Verification API. The demonstration, showcased at the ...

Explore how relying on CSRF tokens as a security measure against CSRF attacks is a recommended best practice, but in some cases, they are simply not enough. As per the Open Web Application Security ...

A malicious package named 'pycord-self' on the Python package index (PyPI) targets Discord developers to steal authentication tokens and plant a backdoor for remote control over the system. The ...