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The DHS recently issued a warning against the use of common and or easily guessed passwords after several government agencies have been targeted by "password spray" attacks.
It seems that the world outside of technologists will never listen to advice regarding strong passwords, not reusing passwords, not writing passwords down, etc. If you're an administrator and have the ability to do so - for the love of Dog, please enable TOTP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_One-time_Password_algorithm) or something similar - and remember that SMS is far too easy to spoof to be considered a secure method of delivering one-time passwords."
Source: SC Magazine
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 12 2019, @02:36PM (1 child)
Biometrics is not security. Biometrics only gives you "what you have" type of security, not what you know. Also, unlike OTP, you can't change your biometrics. This means that passwords will ALWAYS be de-facto authentication method. If you use anything else, you are in major trouble as someone can just steal your "credentials".
Biometrics are useful to authenticate user with some document, like passport. But they are useless for almost everything else.
If you have a phone, and you unlock with a fingerprint, then you are doing it wrong. If you unlock it with password or pattern, then that's OK. If then you use fingerprint to authorize some transaction or login to google, that OK (convenience), as the phone is already authenticated you with password and the fingerprint becomes authorization verification. But if you only use fingerprint, then maybe your finger becomes valuable?
(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Sunday May 12 2019, @03:04PM
I've never enabled fingerprint or 'face' unlocking on my devices and I can't imagine I ever will. I understand that in principle police can't currently compell an unlock [pcmag.com] using biometric data (at least until challenged/overturned) but with unlock being based on something I know instead, it becomes my decision to stand up to the wrench [xkcd.com] or not. (And none of that 'no, he left it unlocked, we didn't force his tragically broken finger onto the fingerprint reader, honest!')
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