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A close-up of a laptop keyboard, the keys backlit in blue. Cybersecurity 4 min NIST forbids the password rules most companies still enforce Character-mix requirements and ninety-day expiry are not NIST recommendations that have gone out of fashion. T... KE Kenji Tanaka 13 Sep A close-up of a laptop keyboard and trackpad with a small fingerprint reader beside it Cybersecurity 6 min WebAuthn tells your server to ignore the bit that proves two factors One flag distinguishes a passkey login that used only the device from one that also took a PIN or fingerprint.... KE Kenji Tanaka 11 Sep Mobile phone with no face detected message on lock screen on a textured fabric surface. Consumer Tech 8 min Singpass Now Has Passkeys. Four in Five Scams Do Not Steal Your Password Singpass began supporting passkeys on 1 July. They remove credential theft entirely — and 81.8 per cent of Sin... AM Amelia Wong 5 Aug A phone face-down on a wooden desk beside an open paper notebook and a pen, under a single warm desk lamp Cybersecurity 9 min Account Security You Can Finish in an Afternoon Four jobs, ordered by how much loss each one prevents, with the arguments settled by the standard rather than... CY Cyber Team 1 Aug A JWT split into three panels: header and payload shown decoded and readable, the signature panel hatched and padlocked as checkable only with the key. Developer Tools 17 min Decoding a JWT Is Not Verifying It A decoder shows you the claims; it does not tell you whether to believe them. RFC 7519 §7.2 lists ten validati... KE Kenji Tanaka 25 Jul A close-up of a black leather briefcase with a brass combination lock. Cybersecurity 12 min That 30-Second Code: How Authenticator Apps Actually Work (2026) The six digits in your authenticator app come from two short public standards. We walk the algorithm step by s... CY Cyber Team 22 Jul A person using a fingerprint scanner for secure entry in an office. Cybersecurity 12 min Passkeys Explained: What Actually Replaces Your Passwords (2026) What a passkey is per the WebAuthn spec, NIST's synced vs device-bound line, recovery on Apple, Google and Win... CY Cyber Team 22 Jul A brass padlock and key resting on steel chains Cybersecurity 14 min How to Build a Password System That Actually Holds (2026) NIST's 2025 rewrite raised the password floor to 15 characters and killed forced rotation. Rebuild your logins... CY Cyber Team 21 Jul
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