Mandiant releases rainbow table that cracks weak admin password in 12 hours

Security firm Mandiant has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft’s NTLM.v1 hash ...
Cloud Security Alliance

Reimagining the Browser as a Critical Policy Enforcement Point: A Zero Trust Security Architecture for Modern Enterprises

Explores turning the browser into a policy enforcement point within a Zero Trust framework, covering governance, MFA, device ...
PC Magazine

Still Using Passwords? Yikes. Here's Why You Should Switch to Passkeys Now

We get it, everyone hates passwords. They’re often easy to guess, hard to remember, and changing them after every data breach is a pain, even if you do have a password manager. Thankfully, passkeys ...
IEEE

Some Flaws of Authentication and Key Agreement Protocols Against Ephemeral Secret Leakage Attack for Smart Grid

Abstract: The increasing complexity of the smart grid (SG) raises significant concerns regarding the security of SG communication. As a countermeasure, the authentication and key agreement (AKA) ...
Nature

Reporting standards and availability of data, materials, code and protocols

An inherent principle of publication is that others should be able to replicate and build upon the authors' published claims. A condition of publication in a Nature Portfolio journal is that authors ...
IEEE

A Lightweight and Secure One-time Authentication Protocol for MQTT based on SAS-L2

Abstract: Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) is one of the communication protocols used in Internet of Things (IoT) systems. It is a lightweight protocol characterized by low communication ...