Usability of Passwordless Authentication in Wi-Fi Networks: A Comparative Study of Passkeys and Passwords in Captive Portals

Passkeys have recently emerged as a passwordless authentication mechanism, yet their usability in captive portals remains unexplored. This paper presents an empirical, comparative usability study of passkeys and passwords in a Wi-Fi hotspot using a captive portal. We conducted a controlled...

New Mozilla Feature Blocks Risky Add-Ons on Specific Websites to Safeguard User Security

Mozilla has announced that some add-ons may be blocked from running on certain sites as part of a new feature called Quarantined Domains. "We have introduced a new back-end feature to only allow some extensions monitored by Mozilla to run on specific websites for various reasons, including securi...

Facebook Launches 'Privacy Center' to Educate Users on Data Collection and Privacy Options

Meta Platforms, the company formerly known as Facebook, on Friday announced the launch of a centralized Privacy Center that aims to "educate people" about its approach with regards to how it collects and processes personal information across its family of social media apps. "Privacy Center provid...

Concepts, Entities and Terms used for nFactor Authentication through NetScaler

nFactor is the new authentication framework that allows an administrator to configure complex authentication scenarios fairly easily. It reduces complexity through flexible and extensible authentication mechanisms. This framework could be used to configure all the authentication modes currently...