These attacks are, of course, not a reflection of the skills or capacities of the engineers or employees at these organizations. And, with all these breaches, one thing has remained common: attackers were able to obtain credentials and bypass MFA by employing different social engineering tricks. In recent months, major organizations have all had their infrastructure breached. Even when augmented with multi-factor authentication (MFA) methods such as one-time-passcodes, password-based authentication remains extremely vulnerable because secrets are shared. If you get nothing else from reading this piece, I want you to go away with this: passwords are no longer a reliable method for authentication or granting infrastructure access. ![]() ![]() Aside: This article is part of a three-part series exploring how shared secrets enable social engineering attacks and how adopting authentication methods that eliminate shared secrets (such as passkeys, TLS certificates, and device attestation) decreases the probability of social engineering attacks by a large percentage or eliminates it completely.
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