'Credential stuffing' attacks set to rise
More businesses are set to join The Iconic, Dan Murphy’s and Event Cinemas in falling victim to hackers, amid calls for passwords to be abolished entirely.
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More businesses are set to join The Iconic, Dan Murphy’s and Event Cinemas in falling victim to hackers, amid calls for passwords to be abolished entirely.
But we’ve become so cosy with passwords. They’ve been there since the birth of the internet, and there are many myths and conspiracy-theories around what a passwordless-world might look like. This has been linked to ID2020, QAnon and the “Need for Good Digital ID” to prove who you are in a digital era and the theory this involves the insertion of some kind of “chip” to protect us. It is confusing for someone like me who is new to the world of cyber security and computers to get my head around what passworldless technology involves. What I do know is we need something.