Understanding Credit Card Authorization Keys: Definition and Example

A credit card authorization key is a secure code used to process transactions, confirming purchases and preventing fraud ...
PC World

Tested: QR Code Key Ring for Lost Keys

Here’s the idea: you attach a QR code to your key ring that, when scanned, opens a texting window with “I found your keys!” set to send to the key owner’s phone. When I saw the instructions for this ...
The New York Times

The Best Security Key for Multi-Factor Authentication

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Ars Technica

Developers can’t seem to stop exposing credentials in publicly accessible code

Despite more than a decade of reminding, prodding, and downright nagging, a surprising number of developers still can’t bring themselves to keep their code free of credentials that provide the keys to ...
Bleeping Computer

Code beautifiers expose credentials from banks, govt, tech orgs

Thousands of credentials, authentication keys, and configuration data impacting organizations in sensitive sectors have been sitting in publicly accessible JSON snippets submitted to the JSONFormatter ...
Becker's ASC

8 Key Points to Consider (and a Checklist to Use) When Selecting an External Coding Audit Company

ASCs should incorporate an external audit into their compliance programs. Formal coding audit protocol should define the purpose of the audit, frequency of review and sample size. The difficult part ...
CSOonline

AI programming copilots are worsening code security and leaking more secrets

Copilot-enabled repos are 40% more likely to contain API keys, passwords, or tokens — just one of several issues security leaders must address as AI-generated code proliferates. AI coding assistants ...