Google Announces Passkeys Adopted by Over 400 Million Accounts

Google on Thursday announced that passkeys are being used by over 400 million Google accounts, authenticating users more than 1 billion times over the past two years. "Passkeys are easy to use and phishing resistant, only relying on a fingerprint, face scan or a pin making them 50% faster than...

Hardcoded credentials

Use of a hard-coded cryptographic key pair by the telnetdstartup service allows an attacker on the local area network to obtain a root shell on the device over telnet. The builds of telnetdstartup included in the version 22.5.9.163 of the K2 firmware, and version 32.1.15.93 of the K3C firmware...

Bug in OpenSSH Opens Linux Machines to Password Cracking Attack

A simple but highly critical vulnerability recently disclosed in the most widely used OpenSSH software allows attackers to try thousands of password login attempts per connection in a short period. OpenSSH is the most popular software widely used for secure remote access to Linux-based systems...