Potential Weaponizing of Honeypot Logs

Re:Potential Weaponizing of Honeypot Logs by MattPalmer1086 on Saturday September 02, 2023 @04:02AM (#37359412)

Define soon. Passwords, for all their annoyances, will probably be around for a long time.

While they are not brilliant at anything, they are good enough on many dimensions. Some disadvantages of the things you mention are:

* They don't require specialised hardware * They don't require complicated recovery mechanisms if that hardware is lost, stolen or broken. * Arguably, biometrics should not be used for authentication. Once a biometric system is compromised, you have no way to recover. You can't change your biometrics.

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Re:Potential Weaponizing of Honeypot Logs by NikkiA on Saturday September 02, 2023 @10:17AM (#37361743)

My bank dropped using passwords back in july.

Now all that protects my account is a 5 digit PIN and SMS, and you can reset the pin via SMS.

I'm glad financial companies hire security minded folks.

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Re:Potential Weaponizing of Honeypot Logs by MattPalmer1086 on Saturday September 02, 2023 @10:36AM (#37361892)

Well, technically a PIN is a kind of low security password...

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Re:Potential Weaponizing of Honeypot Logs by jowea on Saturday September 02, 2023 @08:01PM (#37366531)

I suspect that what's supposed to be going on there is that what protects your account is law enforcement and the fact that financial transactions are traceable.

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Re:Potential Weaponizing of Honeypot Logs by NoZebra120vClip on Sunday September 03, 2023 @07:30AM (#37369535)

Yeah, her bank has stationed a cop to stand at every website login and proactively arrest hackers before they can get at her money.

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Re:Potential Weaponizing of Honeypot Logs by jowea on Sunday September 03, 2023 @10:21AM (#37370662)

I meant get the money back after the fact. Which yeah it will probably suck for the client even if the bank considers it a cost of doing business.

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Re:Potential Weaponizing of Honeypot Logs by jwilk on Sunday September 03, 2023 @07:31AM (#37369548)

This is satire, right?

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Re:Potential Weaponizing of Honeypot Logs by NikkiA on Sunday September 03, 2023 @08:58AM (#37370048)

Nope - although the last line is sarcasm, if that's what you mean.

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