5 posts tagged ‘Passwords’
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Mattt Thompson (tweet): This core insight — that configuration should be separate from code — led to the widespread adoption of .env files.[…]You add this file to .gitignore to keep it out of version control, and load these variables into your environment at runtime with a tool or library.[…]op lets you manage 1Password from the […]
Google Removing Support for “Less Secure Apps”
Google (September 2023, via Hacker News): Google Workspace will no longer support the sign-in method for third-party apps or devices that require users to share their Google username and password. This antiquated sign-in method, known as Less Secure Apps (LSAs), puts users at an additional risk since it requires sharing Google Account credentials with third-party […]
How to Change a New iPhone Passcode If You Forget It
Tim Hardwick: In iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, it is now possible to reset an iPhone or iPad’s new passcode with the previous passcode you used for up to three days after the change is made. In other words, Apple lets you use your old passcode within 72 hours of setting a new one, which […]
iLeakage: Browser-Based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices
Jason Kim et al. (Hacker News): We present iLeakage, a transient execution side channel targeting the Safari web browser present on Macs, iPads and iPhones. iLeakage shows that the Spectre attack is still relevant and exploitable, even after nearly 6 years of effort to mitigate it since its discovery. We show how an attacker can […]
Secondary Apple ID Mess and Inadvertent Password Reset
I was doing some testing with Apple Mail on my test Mac using my test iCloud account. I made a fresh macOS user account and entered the Apple ID, but Apple said it was “locked for security reasons.” Who knows why? To unlock the account, it wanted me to verify using one of my other […]