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The recent discovery of a publicly available Elasticsearch cluster, a group of interconnected search servers, containing 24 billion exposed records, is among the largest-scale data breaches, highlighting the troubling reality that passwords have become a weak link in modern digital security. For years, one of the responses to cyberthreats has been to create stronger passwords, implement password rotation policies, and deploy password managers. Despite all these efforts, credential-related attacks continue to dominate the threat landscape. The latest threat is a reminder that the problem is not simply password hygiene – but the password itself. The Weaknesses of Password-Based Security Passwords were designed for a simplerRead More →