Explore if facial recognition meets the criteria to be classified as a passkey. Understand the security, usability, and standards implications for passwordless authentication.

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Modern internet users navigate an increasingly fragmented digital ecosystem dominated by countless applications, services, brands and platforms. Engaging with online offerings often requires selecting and remembering passwords or taking other steps to verify and protect one’s identity. However, following best practices has become incredibly challenging due to various factors. Identifying Digital Identity Management Problems in..

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Bad actors that include nation-state groups to financially-motivated cybercriminals from across the globe are targeting the maximum-severity but easily exploitable React2Shell flaw, with threat researchers see everything from probes and backdoors to botnets and cryptominers.

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The exploitation efforts by China-nexus groups and other bad actors against the critical and easily abused React2Shell flaw in the popular React and Next.js software accelerated over the weekend, with threats ranging from stolen credentials and initial access to downloaders, crypto-mining, and the NoodleRat backdoor being executed.

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TransUnion today added an ability to create digital fingerprints without relying on cookies that identify, in real time, risky devices and other hidden anomalies to its Device Risk service for combatting fraud. Clint Lowry, vice president of global fraud solutions at TransUnion, said these capabilities extend a service that makes use of machine learning models..

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The Washington Post last month reported it was among a list of data breach victims of the Oracle EBS-related vulnerabilities, with a threat actor compromising the data of more than 9,700 former and current employees and contractors. Now, a former worker is launching a class-action lawsuit against the Post, claiming inadequate security.

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Chinese-sponsored groups are using the popular Brickstorm backdoor to access and gain persistence in government and tech firm networks, part of the ongoing effort by the PRC to establish long-term footholds in agency and critical infrastructure IT environments, according to a report by U.S. and Canadian security offices.

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A threat group dubbed ShadyPanda exploited traditional extension processes in browser marketplaces by uploading legitimate extensions and then quietly weaponization them with malicious updates, infecting 4.3 million Chrome and Edge users with RCE malware and spyware.

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The FBI says that account takeover scams this year have resulted in 5,100-plus complaints in the U.S. and $262 million in money stolen, and Bitdefender says the combination of the growing number of ATO incidents and risky consumer behavior is creating an increasingly dangerous environment that will let such fraud expand.

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According to the Thales Consumer Digital Trust Index 2025, global confidence in digital services is slipping fast. After surveying more than 14,000 consumers across 15 countries, the findings are clear: no sector earned high trust ratings from even half its users. Most industries are seeing trust erode — or, at best, stagnate. In an era..

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The Russian state-sponsored group behind the RomCom malware family used the SocGholish loader for the first time to launch an attack on a U.S.-based civil engineering firm, continuing its targeting of organizations that offer support to Ukraine in its ongoing war with its larger neighbor.

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A look at why identity security is failing in the age of deepfakes and AI-driven attacks, and how biometrics, MFA, PAD, and high-assurance verification must evolve to deliver true, phishing-resistant authentication.

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Huntress threat researchers are tracking a ClickFix campaign that includes a variant of the scheme in which the malicious code is hidden in the fake image of a Windows Update and, if inadvertently downloaded by victims, will deploy the info-stealing malware LummaC2 and Rhadamanthys.

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SitusAMC, a services provider with clients like JP MorganChase and Citi, said its systems were hacked and the data of clients and their customers possibly compromised, sending banks and other firms scrambling. The data breach illustrates the growth in the number of such attacks on third-party providers in the financial services sector.

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Explore secure methods for signing into online accounts, including SSO, MFA, and password management. Learn how CIAM solutions enhance security and user experience for enterprises.

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Agencies with the US and other countries have gone hard after bulletproof hosting services providers this month, including Media Land, Hypercore, and associated companies and individuals, while the FiveEyes threat intelligence alliance published BPH mitigation guidelines for ISPs, cloud providers, and network defenders.

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An attack on the app of CRM platform-provider Gainsight led to the data of hundreds of Salesforce customers being compromised, highlighting the ongoing threats posed by third-party software in SaaS environments and illustrating how one data breach can lead to others, cybersecurity pros say.

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Credential detection finds exposed passwords your policy can’t. Learn how continuous credential checks close the security gap.

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Learn how to implement risk-based authorization for enhanced security in identity and access management. Protect your applications from unauthorized access and data breaches.

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Understand Single Sign-On (SSO), its benefits, and why creating an account is still a crucial step for initial setup and enhanced security. Learn how SSO simplifies access while maintaining control.

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Four U.S. citizens and a Ukrainian national pleaded guilty to their roles in a North Korean IT worker scam that victimized more than 135 U.S. companies and netted more than $2.2 million for the DPRK regime and is military and weapons programs.

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how proper JWT governance helps your organization stay compliant with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR. Explore best practices, governance frameworks, and how SSOJet ensures secure token management.

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Google is suing the Smishing Triad group behind the Lighthouse phishing-as-a-service kit that has been used over the past two years to scam more than 1 million people around the world with fraudulent package delivery or EZ-Pass toll fee messages and stealing millions of credit card numbers. Google also is backing bills in Congress to address the threat.

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The intrusion a year ago into Conduent Business Solutions' systems, likely by the SafePay ransomware group, that affected more than 10.5 individuals will likely cost the company more than $50 million in related expenses and millions more to settle the lawsuits that are piling up.

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AI vendor Anthropic says a China-backed threat group used the agentic capabilities in its Claude AI model to automate as much as 90% of the operations in a info-stealing campaign that presages how hackers will used increasingly sophisticated AI capabilities in future cyberattacks.

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Explore different authentication provider types (social, passwordless, MFA) and learn best practices for choosing the right one to enhance security and user experience in your applications.

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Holiday shopping cybersecurity is a B2B issue. Learn how continuous password monitoring protects against credential threats.

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Learn how to improve single sign-on (SSO) experiences using OpenID Connect (OIDC) and SCIM for streamlined authentication and user management.

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Explore qualified digital certificates, their role in authentication, and how they bolster security in software development. Understand the technical and legal aspects.

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For years, HYPR and Yubico have stood shoulder to shoulder in the mission to eliminate passwords and improve identity security. Yubico’s early and sustained push for FIDO-certified hardware authenticators and HYPR’s leadership as part of the FIDO Alliance mission to reduce the world’s reliance on passwords have brought employees and customers alike into the era of modern authentication.

Today, that partnership continues to expand. As enterprise adoption of YubiKeys continues to accelerate worldwide, HYPR and Yubico are proud to announce innovations that help enterprises to further validate that the employees receiving or using their YubiKeys are assured to the highest levels of identity verification. 

HYPR Affirm, a leading identity verification orchestration product, now integrates directly with Yubico’s provisioning capabilities, enabling organizations to securely verify, provision, and deploy YubiKeys to their distributed workforce with full confidence that each key is used by the right, verified individual.

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Explore Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM): its definition, importance, benefits, and how it differs from IAM. Learn how CIAM enhances user experience and security.

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AI agents are increasingly being used to search the web, making traditional bot mitigation systems inadequate and opening the door for malicious actors to develop and deploy bots that impersonate legitimate agents from AI vendors to launch account takeover and financial fraud attacks.

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Discover passkeys, the next-generation authentication method replacing passwords. Learn how passkeys work, their security advantages, and how they're shaping software development.

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Explore modern authentication methods for secure remote access, replacing outdated passwords and VPNs with MFA, passwordless, and ZTNA for enhanced security.

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Twilio acquiring Stytch signals a major shift in developer CIAM. I've analyzed 20+ platforms—from Descope to Keyclock—to show you which deliver on Auth0's promise without the lock-in. OpenID standards, AI agent auth, and what actually matters when choosing your identity platform.

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So long and thanks for all the fish: Peter Williams admits to selling unpatched iPhone bugs to a shady Russian broker.

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Generative AI is transforming identity and access management by enabling adaptive authentication, real-time threat detection, and smarter cybersecurity.

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7 min readInstead of just trusting the token's signature, attestation-based identity adds an extra layer of security. It cryptographically verifies that the workload is running exactly where and how it's supposed to. It's proof of location and configuration, not just a signature.

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Explore passkeys for mobile devices: what they are, how they work, their security advantages, and implementation strategies for developers.

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Obsidian Security says it is creating a working group of security leaders to pressure SaaS vendors to adopt standards like the SSCF to make their online applications safer as the cyber threats against them escalate and the use of AI agents in SaaS tools continues to expand.

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The FCC has taken another step to keep Chinese telecom gear from being imported into the United States, voting 3-0 to block new approvals for products from those nine Chinese companies on its "Covered List" and considered potential national security threats.

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5 min readLearn when to use OAuth for authorization, OIDC for authentication, or both protocols together based on your architecture and use case.

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Explore the key differences between facial recognition and passkeys for authentication. Understand their unique concepts, security implications, and use cases in software development.

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