Where the tokens and passwords a CI/CD pipeline needs should live: why a secret in the repository cannot be deleted, masking and protected branches, short-lived identities with OIDC.
The FIDO Alliance has published the Credential Exchange specifications (CXF and CXP) for securely exporting and importing passkeys and other credentials between different managers. Here's what they…
What a brute force attack is, why every exposed service gets them, and the basic defenses: strong passwords and keys, multi-factor authentication, rate limiting, and tools like fail2ban.
RFC 9729 defines an HTTP authentication scheme that won't even reveal whether a protected resource exists: what it is, the problem it solves, and what it's for.
Passkeys replace passwords with a cryptographic key pair. Since January 2025, the ones saved in Google Password Manager also sync to iPhone and iPad, on top of Android, Windows, macOS, Linux, and…