The recent hack of Salesforce should prompt Gmail users to shift from passwords to passkeys, according to a report by Inc. posted by sister publication Fast Company. No Gmail credentials were stolen in the hack, but business-related data like contact lists, company associations and email...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing everything, especially cybersecurity. But a recent data breach suffered by McDonald’s, exposing the personal information of around 64 million of the company’s job applicants, wasn’t a failure of AI so much as a failure of the most basic cybersecurity principle: never...
America’s banks are under siege, and the enemy is invisible. Authentication-based fraud is skyrocketing, leaving financial institutions scrambling to fight back against an epidemic of stolen identities, hacked passwords and unauthorized transactions. These are just some of the findings detailed in “To Stamp Out Authentication-Based...
The passwordless future has long been promised, but has long been just over the horizon — remaining more an aspiration than a reality. Passwords, after all, are sticky. We’ve used them for decades, augmented by security questions drawing upon moms’ maiden names, the color of...
April 23, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know With Entersekt’s Schalk Nolte Banks are confronting a difficult reality: the one-time password, once treated as a reliable safeguard, is no longer sufficient to protect accounts in an environment shaped by automation and deception. Schalk Nolte, CEO of Entersekt, made clear that the industry has long understood the limitations. “This […]
March 14, 2025
America’s banks are under siege, and the enemy is invisible. Authentication-based fraud is skyrocketing, leaving financial institutions scrambling to fight back against an epidemic of stolen identities, hacked passwords and...
December 09, 2024
The passwordless future has long been promised, but has long been just over the horizon — remaining more an aspiration than a reality. Passwords, after all, are sticky. We’ve used...
May 27, 2024
Consumers hate passwords. Fraudsters love them. There might be no better business case for passkeys, which are a biometric, digital alternative to manually selected and stored passwords. Passkeys have also...
November 07, 2025
The recent hack of Salesforce should prompt Gmail users to shift from passwords to passkeys, according to a report by Inc. posted by sister publication Fast Company. No Gmail credentials were stolen in the hack, but business-related data like contact lists, company associations and email data were stolen, according to the report. This kind of […]
October 14, 2024
The FIDO Alliance has released credential exchange protocols and a resource to promote the adoption of passkeys. The new secure credential exchange specifications were published in a working draft and...
September 19, 2024
Users can now save passkeys to Google Password Manager on desktop, in addition to Android devices. This new capability allows users to sync passkeys securely across all their devices, Chirag Desai, product manager,...
June 06, 2024
Apple will reportedly unveil a password manager app Monday (June 10) at its Worldwide Developers Conference. Dubbed “Passwords,” the app is expected to be part of the next versions of...
