Are magic links secure? A security analyst breaks down token entropy, replay protection, expiry, device binding, and email compromise risks for MojoAuth users.

Be honest with me. How many of your passwords are still some version of your pet’s name followed by a number? Studies have shown that roughly 80% of data breaches involve weak or reused passwords.

At the heart of any password generator is a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (CSPRNG), an algorithm that produces unpredictable sequences of numbers and characters. This isn’t an ...

Nearly 150,000 generators sold at stores like Home Depot and Lowe’s are being recalled for posing a deadly fire hazard. According to an April 16 warning from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety ...

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The one-time password generator settings dialog now supports displaying settings of history entries. If the active database is saved to a local file during the last phase of a synchronization, the ...

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The era of AI has not been particularly great for cybersecurity. We know that vibe-coded websites and apps have been a hotbed of security flaws that leave the platforms vulnerable to attacks. It turns ...

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Think you’re being clever, substituting that “a” with an “@” symbol? Or tacking your birth year onto your dog’s name? Here’s a truth nobody wants to hear: you’re awful at creating secure passwords.