Password Management

Parental cautionary tales — BRAD SNATCHED HIS BRIEFCASE from the sofa and bolted for the door. His wristwatch said 10:30, and he’d scheduled an appointment for 11, which wouldn’t have been a problem were his appointment not a 45-minute drive. …

Introduction While cyber breaches generally make for breaking news in the digital world, sometimes the attack tactics themselves claim much media attention for their uniqueness. From ransomware to phishing attacks, we have heard them all. But the one hacking tactic that is generating a lot of attention is password spraying, an…

You have finally built your app’s Register and Login screens. You have even probably connected it to a backend service, say Firebase Authentication. Heck, you might have even started setting up your CI/CD pipeline ready to deploy your app. Wait! Hold up! “What’s the hold up?”, you might ask. Pun…

Introduction Security questions can add an extra layer of certainty to your authentication process. Security questions are an alternative way of identifying your consumers when they have forgotten their password, entered the wrong credentials too many times, or tried to log in from an unfamiliar device or location. So, how do…

This is giving people an absolute false sense of security! It gets much more complicated than just a simple chart like this. This chart gives NO information on the contributing [critical] factors towards these calculations. Are we using grandma’s old PC from 25 years ago or are we cracking with…

There was a time not so long ago where I reused a significant number of my passwords, I probably only had around 5 unique password which I then changed slightly for each service I signed up to, in some cases those passwords were the same as my email password and…

If you’re here because you’ve leaked a secret into version control, a fan of The Twelve-Factor App, or just want to learn how to better store passwords on secrets on your development machine, you’re in the correct place. Note: Throughout this walkthrough you will see me switch between password and…

As a cybersecurity enthousiaste who has worked as a CISO Assistant and established password policies for an IT infrastructure containing over 3000 workstations with high priveleges, I will present you in this article the points to focus on when you create your own secure password policy. But before that, let’s…

A while ago, I stumbled upon a review of the RecZone Password Safe on YouTube. Fascinated by this device — I decided to delve deeper into the hardware password vault market to see what other options are available. …