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20 Jun 2024 4 minute read 11 comments Debesh Choudhury
While using biometrics recognition can be convenient, but biometrics recognition is inherently probabilistic and not deterministic. The probabilistic trait of biometrics recognition makes it unreliable. Besides, biometrics has many other challenges...
2 May 2024 2 minute read 2 comments Debesh Choudhury
What is a password? A password is a string of keyboard characters used to verify a user's identity during the authentication process in a computational system online or offline. A password is typically used with a username and is designed to be k...
25 Jan 2024 2 minute read 11 comments Debesh Choudhury
What is biometrics? Biometrics involves the utilization of distinct physiological or behavioral traits of humans to authenticate or identify individuals. However, biometrics authentication technology is inherently probabilistic, and unreliable,...
9 Oct 2023 2 minute read 17 comments Debesh Choudhury
Nowadays, there is a craze for killing passwords. If you regularly follow cybersecurity trends, you might have noticed the word "password-less." Password-less means your account is always logged in using credentials already saved on a device, such as...
29 Sep 2023 3 minute read 6 comments Great White Snark
Are you still using Windows operating systems and products? Well, you're an idiot, IMO. It's 2023 and time to move to something better (id est, a UNIX-based or compatible system, such as GNU/Linux or Mac OS X). Having played around a bit with KeePass...
15 Sep 2023 8 minute read 0 comments busyjordy
So, it's been a year of travelling for me. Today you find me in Bali, where the sun is shining, the waves are crashing, and the internet is... well, less than perfect. And, as luck would have it, I just witnessed something that prompted me to write t...
11 Aug 2023 1 minute read 0 comments CodyMac50
It's always terrible reading about people who have been scammed, or phished, or "hoodwinked" or their money held ransom by a thief. A while back I got an email telling me that google had a data breach, and my password for several accounts was publish...
8 May 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Citizen0
In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, the traditional password has long been the first line of defense for our online accounts. However, with Google's recent announcement of integrating passkeys into their accounts, the era of passwords may be c...
29 Mar 2023 3 minute read 8 comments I_g_o_r
In the current epoch, an average user has over 100 online accounts and is required by employers, businesses, organizations and governments to have strong and different passwords for these accounts, which should be also periodically changed by the u...
14 Jan 2023 2 minute read 3 comments Debesh Choudhury
What is a password, and why is it essential for all Internet users? I am sure that most Internet users know well what a password is and why it is vital in cyberspace. Still, I will write a short text about it! Passwords are still a widely used and...
