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Mercari's Phishing-Resistant Accounts with Passkey

Techbrunch — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:53:41 +0000

Article URL: https://engineering.mercari.com/en/blog/entry/20251106-mercari-phishing-resistant-accounts-with-passkey/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136491

Points: 1

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Claude is competitive with humans in (some) cyber competitions

Techbrunch — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 18:02:07 +0000

Article URL: https://red.anthropic.com/2025/cyber-competitions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44857000

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Techbrunch in "0day Contest for End-of-Life Devices Announced"

Techbrunch — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:10:21 +0000

Depending on the target and the severity of the vulnerability the vendor might consider fixing the vulnerability even if EOL.

If the target is an IOT device the vulnerability will likely be mass exploited to create a botnet.

The U.S. government recently ‘took control’ of a botnet run by Chinese government hackers made of 260,000 Internet of Things devices... (Source: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/18/u-s-government-took-contro...)

New comment by Techbrunch in "0day Contest for End-of-Life Devices Announced"

Techbrunch — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:05:21 +0000

"Although the term "zero-day" initially referred to the time since the vendor had become aware of the vulnerability, zero-day vulnerabilities can also be defined as the subset of vulnerabilities for which no patch or other fix is available." - Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_vulnerability

New comment by Techbrunch in "Client-side QR code generator with SVG output"

Techbrunch — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 07:43:43 +0000

I found that Anthony Fu's QR Toolkit is a great alternative: https://qrcode.antfu.me/

SSO Tax – Wall of Shame

Techbrunch — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 10:30:08 +0000

Article URL: https://ssotax.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39536229

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Techbrunch in "Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations"

Techbrunch — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 21:25:01 +0000

Is there a ublock origin list that can be used to filter those websites ?

New comment by Techbrunch in "From email to phone number, a new OSINT approach (2019)"

Techbrunch — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 09:20:02 +0000

It is but it was proofread by a human with expertise in the domain, and honestly I wouldn't have done better in such a short amount of words. If someone wants to know more they better read the article which I did to make sure the generated text wasn't bullcrap :)

New comment by Techbrunch in "From email to phone number, a new OSINT approach (2019)"

Techbrunch — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:38:17 +0000

Martin Vigo's article discusses the security vulnerabilities in password reset options for various websites and how these can lead to the exposure of personal phone numbers. Vigo highlights that during a password reset process, websites often partially reveal the user's phone number. This partial display varies across websites; some show the last four digits, others the first, and so on. By initiating password resets across different sites, one can potentially piece together most of the digits of a phone number just from an email address.