A number of distinct developments brought about the current authentication schemes we see in networks today.In the '70s, the creators of UNIX recognized that in order to give a number of individuals ...

Most online applications today require a password. According to recent research, the average person must juggle 168 passwords. For many online users, remembering and ...

Why Passwords Are Still a Developer's Problem in 2026. The case against password-based authentication is well-established in the IAM community, but the practical implications for ...

Model Context Protocol has a security problem that won't go away. When VentureBeat first reported on MCP's vulnerabilities last October, the data was already alarming. Pynt's research showed that ...

In MCP, every request comes from a nonhuman identity: an agent, server or tool. These identities don't act under direct human oversight. They generate requests dynamically, chain operations and carry ...

Increased online fraud and new industry regulations are driving companies to search for stronger authentication methods. The problem is there’s little agreement on the best authentication method or ...

For years, leaders of the security industry have warned that passwords have outlived their usefulness. Users pick easy-to-crack passwords like the name of a dog or a favorite movie. They’re written on ...

A fix introduced into Windows last month to close a weakness in Kerberos authentication is causing logon failures for some Windows Hello for Business (WHfB) users, Microsoft has warned. In theory, the ...

A handful of Mac owners say they can't add Outlook accounts to Apple Mail after recent macOS updates, but the scope and cause of the problem remain murky. The reports in the Apple forums describe ...

In IIS (Win2K), I've disabled anonymous access for our internal time tracking app I'm building. Right now, when a user hits the site, they get the log in (unless they are viewing it internally), then ...

I'm having trouble using basic authentication to password protect directories on my apache server. What I did was the following:<BR>1. I used htpasswd to create the file /usr/local/etc/passwords which ...