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Smashing Security podcast #464: Rockstar got hacked. The data was junk. The secrets it revealed were not

A company that ran anonymous tip lines for 35,000 American schools – handling reports of bullying, weapons, and self-harm – boasted on its website that it had suffered zero security breaches in over 20 years. A hacker called Internet Yiff Machine thought that sounded like a challenge, with predictable results… Meanwhile, Rockstar Games gets hacked…

Authentication is broken: Here’s how security leaders can actually fix it

Authentication keeps breaking where it matters most: On regulated front lines such as healthcare, government, aerospace and travel. The core issue is not a lack of innovation. Instead, it is a brittle and fragmented ecosystem of cards, readers, middleware and software that rarely work together under real-world pressure. Even today’s “passwordless” solutions can be undermined…