Okta report on credential stuffing attacks marks another blow against passwords

San Francisco’s Okta says a wave of credential stuffing attacks that is “unprecedented” in scale uses the same infrastructure as attacks on Cisco’s VPN services earlier in April. The trend is sure to reignite discussion about the dubious security of passwords and potential alternatives that use security keys or biometric authentication.

A post on the company’s blog, entitled “How to Block Residential Proxies using Okta,” says that “over the last month, Okta has observed an increase in …

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