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🧠 Knowledge Series #23: Passkeys explained

Department of Product • 314 implied HN points • 06 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Security Product Development User Experience Cybersecurity Authentication
  1. Passkeys are digital keys replacing traditional passwords, enhancing security and creating unique keys for each account and device.
  2. Major companies like Uber, Apple, Google, and Microsoft are actively supporting and implementing passkeys for a passwordless future.
  3. Product teams can implement passkeys by understanding how they work and following a step-by-step guide for integration.

Look out! Hackers are coming for your travel account

Elliott Confidential • 137 implied HN points • 11 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Cybersecurity Travel Online Services Data Privacy Authentication
  1. Use two-factor authentication and authenticator apps to protect your online travel accounts from hackers.
  2. Enable login notifications and maximize security settings on platforms to monitor any unauthorized access to your accounts.
  3. Avoid using simple or repeated passwords, practice safe Wi-Fi usage, and be cautious of urgent emails or suspicious links to prevent hacking incidents.

Microsoft Sentinel SOC 101: How to Detect and Mitigate Login Attempts Using Legacy Auth with Microsoft Sentinel

Rod’s Blog • 119 implied HN points • 24 Oct 23
🕹 Technology Security Authentication Management Monitoring Mitigation
  1. Legacy authentication poses a significant security risk as it makes it easier for attackers to compromise user accounts.
  2. Microsoft Entra ID recommends disabling legacy authentication to improve security.
  3. Microsoft Sentinel can help detect and mitigate login attempts using legacy authentication by analyzing sign-in logs, creating alerts, and taking appropriate actions.

Brief: Going Passwordless - the New Trend in Online Security

Rod’s Blog • 19 implied HN points • 08 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Security Authentication Microsoft Online Services Biometrics
  1. Passwordless authentication aims to improve security by eliminating the need for traditional passwords and using methods like biometrics or hardware tokens instead.
  2. Going passwordless reduces the risk of password breaches and phishing attacks, making the login process faster and more convenient for users.
  3. Challenges of going passwordless include user trust in new technologies, compatibility issues, privacy concerns, and suitability for certain online services.
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Incident Post-Mortem: Backdoor exposed in popular sex robot operating system leaves millions of men sexless.

Davidovits! • 1 HN point • 05 Apr 24
🕹 Technology Security Engineering Software Authentication Robots
  1. An unintended vulnerability in a core library led to widespread sexbot malfunctions.
  2. Prolonged eye contact was found to reduce startup time for older users and increase customer satisfaction.
  3. The incident post-mortem revealed a critical backdoor compromise that affected millions of sex robot users.

B2C vs B2B vs B2B2E CIAM

ciamweekly • 1 HN point • 11 Mar 24
🕹 Technology Authentication Online Security User Experience Integration
  1. B2C, B2B, and B2B2E applications require different approaches to customer identity and access management (CIAM) systems.
  2. B2C applications aim at end consumers, requiring smooth registration and authentication processes due to user choice.
  3. B2B and B2B2E applications cater to business and employee users, with focus on organization structures, payment collection, and different authentication needs.

Advanced Swift Actors: Re-entrancy & Interleaving

Jacob’s Tech Tavern • 2 HN points • 10 Oct 23
🕹 Technology Swift Concurrency Actors Authentication iOS
  1. Understanding Swift actors is crucial for managing re-entrancy and interleaving in your code.
  2. Building an optimal authentication service involves utilizing Swift actors to minimize duplicate work and network overhead.
  3. Swift concurrency model utilizes cooperative threading, executors, and actors to create an illusion of single-threadedness and prevent data races.

What are OWASP’s Top 10 API vulnerabilities?

microapis.io • 3 HN points • 27 Feb 23
🕹 Technology Vulnerabilities Authentication
  1. OWASP's Top 10 API vulnerabilities include issues like broken user authentication, excessive data exposure, and lack of resources & rate limiting.
  2. Broken Object Level Authorization can lead to attackers accessing information they shouldn't.
  3. API security is crucial due to the growing use of APIs, potential risks, and the significant impact of poor API security on organizations.

Of users and direct messaging (pt. 1)

AnyCable Broadcasts • 0 implied HN points • 16 Feb 22
🕹 Technology Programming Web Development Authentication
  1. The post discusses the preliminary work for adding a direct messaging feature, such as setting up user profiles and authentication via Rails `has_secure_password`.
  2. Links to resources like Rails `has_secure_password` documentation, Turbo Frames, and Stimulus JS are provided for further learning.
  3. The use of Turbo Frames and Stimulus JS for managing state and persisting elements across page loads is highlighted.

Exploring Rails 7, Hotwire and AnyCable speedy streams

AnyCable Broadcasts • 0 implied HN points • 23 Dec 21
🕹 Technology Programming Web Development Ruby Real-time Authentication
  1. The post explores building a new Rails 7 application with features like `--css=tailwind`, Turbo Frames and Streams, and configuring AnyCable with JWT authentication and speedy streams.
  2. The screencast series 'AnyCasts' covers real-time web app development using Ruby and other languages, alongside Hotwire and Stimulus Reflex.
  3. Resources include the Rails 7 release announcement, Turbo Frames documentation, AnyCable blog, and plugins like AnyCable Rails JWT for JWT identification in AnyCable.

AnyCable v1.2: JWT identification and "hot streams"

AnyCable Broadcasts • 0 implied HN points • 29 Sep 21
🕹 Technology Web Development Backend Real-time Authentication Performance
  1. AnyCable v1.2 introduces JWT identification and 'hot streams' for powering up efficient Hotwire frontends by moving functions from Ruby to Go.
  2. JWT identification standardizes authentication for WebSockets, protects from cross-site WebSocket hijacking, and boosts performance by removing the need for RPC calls.
  3. Combining JWT identification with signed streams in AnyCable allows the creation of subscriptions without touching RPC, offering improved efficiency for Hotwire and CableReady functionality.

Seldom Considered CIAM Attack Vectors

ciamweekly • 0 implied HN points • 12 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Security Authentication Passwords Verification
  1. Implement email verification in CIAM systems to connect new accounts to valid email owners, reducing account takeovers and bot attacks.
  2. When changing login identifiers in CIAM systems, re-verification is crucial to prevent unauthorized access and alert users of potential attacks.
  3. Account recovery in CIAM systems should not be sent to unverified accounts and should implement additional security measures like session invalidation and multi-factor authentication.

Introducing Microservices

Overflow • 0 implied HN points • 29 May 23
🕹 Technology Microservices Architecture Scaling Communication Authentication
  1. Microservices architecture provides a solution to the challenges of monolithic applications by structuring an application as a collection of loosely coupled services.
  2. Transitioning from a monolith to microservices involves splitting different modules into independent services, offering flexibility in programming languages, databases, and scaling components of the application independently.
  3. Microservices offer benefits like continuous delivery, easy testing, fault tolerance, and better scalability compared to monolithic applications, making them a favorite among developers.