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Top 15 Password Alternatives with Pros and Cons

Shrey Gupta — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 10:49:43 +0000

The increasing amount of data breaches and cyber-attack success against password-based authentication is the biggest reason to look for password alternatives. Also, the pain of considering passwords’ do’s and don’ts is so much so that it impacts user experience that bothers both users and businesses. Using no password authentication is the best fit to combat both security and experience concerns.

Let’s first dig into the frustrating do’s and don’t of passwords:

Password Do’s and Don’ts for Users

Don’t create common passwords or use common patterns in passwords
Don’t reuse passwords across accounts
Don’t use short passwords
Don’t write down passwords but remember them
Do create complex and lengthy passwords
Do store passwords in a secure location like password managers

Password Do’s and Don’ts for Businesses

Don’t let users use common or dictionary passwords
Don’t let users reuse their previous account passwords
Do set policies for users to create complex passwords
Do offer multi-factor authentication (MFA) to enhance the security of password-based authentication
Do ensure user convenience and security
Do educate users not to reuse their passwords across accounts
Do invest in securing access against common password attacks like credential stuffing
Do invest in hashing and encrypting the password data
Do manage the cost of passwords

Despite all the efforts that businesses put into educating users not to use common or dictionary passwords, a large number of user segments still end up creating weak and common passwords.

Top 15 Passwords Alternatives with Pros and Cons

There are many good alternatives to passwords that not only resolve security concerns but provide a great user experience too. The following is the list of 15 top password alternative authentication:

Fingerprint scan
Facial recognition
Retina scan
Voice recognition
Magic Link or Email Link
Email OTP
SMS OTP
Two-factor authentication
Security key authentication
Social login
Passkey authentication
Single-sign On
PIN authentication
Pattern authentication
Keystroke authentication

Read more about password alternatives in detail on our blog here.

Medium, Slack and Notion provide a better alternative for Social Logins to their Users

Shrey Gupta — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 11:01:38 +0000

After the popularity of social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, social login got popular. A lot of web and mobile applications adopted the social login, these all provide login over OAuth 2 protocol.

After a few years OpenID initiative came into the picture and providers like Google, Yahoo, Myspace, and StackExchange started offering this, but due to the lack of data points and security flaws this declined, and providers like Google and Yahoo started offering OAuth login.

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What is Passkey?

Shrey Gupta — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 10:50:56 +0000

Passkey authentication solves the problem of password logins. Passwords are not only difficult to remember, but they are also easy to forget and can be guessed by criminals. Passkey authentication is a solution that provides a more secure way for users to access online services. It allows users to authenticate themselves by entering a pin or scanning their fingerprint, both of which are difficult to guess or steal from the user’s device.

Tech giants such as Apple, Google, and PayPal have already started to embrace password-free authentication method—passkey—that eliminates the need for using passwords during signup or logins.

Learn everything about - what passkey is, how passkey authentication works, how to recover a passkey, and how passkey is different from password.

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Top 10 Biggest Data Breaches of 2022 and Learnings From Them

Shrey Gupta — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 11:05:09 +0000

Here is a list of the biggest data breaches of 2022 and what organizations should learn from them. Also, the blog has 9 cybersecurity tips that every organization or startup must include in their go-to cybersecurity plan for 2023.

Top 10 Data Breaches in 2022

Block Data Breach
Flagstar Bank Data Breach
ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) Data Breach
Toyota Data Breach
Twitter Data Breach
Neopets Data Breach
Singtel Optus Data Breach
Medibank Data Breach
Ronin Data Breach
Crypto.com Data Breach

Read more about each data breaches in details and what to learn from these data breaches here.

Passkeys: FIDO’s new mission to completely remove passwords

Shrey Gupta — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 11:28:50 +0000

Passkey is an easy and much more secure way to log in or sign up without any passwords. Passkeys are developed by FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium in order to offer users a straightforward and interoperable infrastructure for passwordless authentication.

Passkeys - Explained!
Passkeys are cryptographic login credentials that replace the need for passwords by requiring either biometric verifications, like fingerprint scan or facial recognition or a PIN or pattern or plug-in authentications, like smart cards.

Also, passkeys replace passwords and two-factor authentication in a single step, making the user experience seamless.

Compared to password-based authentication, passkeys make it more seamless and secure for users to connect to websites and apps. In conventional password-based authentications, a password is created during registration or signup, encrypted, and stored on a server. When logging in, the user enters their password, and the server verifies it by comparing it to a stored password hash.

However, the idea of keeping user credentials on a server no longer exists with passkeys. Passkeys establish a secure and reliable authentication channel by generating cryptographic key pairs (public key and private key) that can connect the user and the respective application. With passkeys, user credentials can be verified using either,

An in-built authenticator (eg: biometric device)
An external or roaming authenticator (eg: mobile phones)
An authenticator that is plugged in (eg: USB or smartcard)

Read more on Passkeys, How it works, Are they secure, Benefit of Passkeys in detail here.

20+ Best SaaS Black Friday Deals For 2022

Shrey Gupta — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 11:10:43 +0000

Black Friday deals are known to be customer’s fiestas, one of the busiest and most profitable times of year for SaaS buyers. Given its exciting deals and offers, Black Friday is undoubtedly the best time to consider if you’re willing to try or purchase any SaaS application at the most exciting prices.

Here is a curated list of Black Friday SaaS deals 2022 for you to get an idea of what Black Friday offers this season. All you have to do is choose the application, service, or product you seek and take advantage of these best SaaS deals to make great cost savings.

Here is a list of some Black Friday SaaS deals curated by MojoAuth for 2022. Make sure to check them out and grab best offers.

Read here to get the full list.

MojoAuth is all set for Hacktoberfest 2021 (contribute & earn swag)

Shrey Gupta — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:39:11 +0000

Hacktoberfest 2021 is an annual, month-long event hosted by DigitalOcean in October to make open source more fun and exciting. We’re excited to be a part of this year’s edition.

For the first time, we’re open sourcing some of the MojoAuth repositories for anyone to contribute and closely understand how we deliver a world-class passwordless solution for application developers and businesses.

No matter who and where you are, you’re most welcome to contribute to our open source projects or any one of the projects participating in Hacktoberfest 2021, for that matter.

It is an opportunity for everyone new or actively participating to showcase their love and passion for open source with their contributions. It is the easiest and most welcoming way to get involved in open source communities and win some cool swag for fun.

Read more here: https://mojoauth.com/hactoberfest

How to Participate in Hacktoberfest 2021 & win LoginRadius Swags

Shrey Gupta — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 10:52:52 +0000

What is Hacktoberfest 2021?

Hacktoberfest 2021 is the 8th edition of Hacktoberfest hosted by DigitalOcean. It is an open source festival celebrated during October every year, encouraging people worldwide to actively participate and contribute to open source projects hosted across GitHub and GitLab.

In fact, Hacktoberfest 2020 had attracted 169,886 participants and 116,361 participating open source repositories, representing 135 countries.

You can simply register yourself here and start contributing to any participating open source project from Oct 01 - Oct 31. And if you meet the contribution criteria set by DigitalOcean, you’ll receive a Hacktoberfest t-shirt from DigitalOcean!

Additionally, if you make successful contributions to LoginRadius open source projects, you’ll separately receive a LoginRadius branded Hacktoberfest t-shirt from us, recognizing and thanking you for your valuable contributions.

How to Contribute?

The exciting part about being involved in the open source community is that no matter how small or big your contributions are, the community will welcome your efforts and collaborate with you positively, sharing feedback and expressing gratitude.

Especially with LoginRadius open source projects, your contributions can make a big difference! We also try making your collaboration with us more enjoyable.

Repositories for Contributing

You can also easily find issues with the hacktoberfest label in order to know which repositories are seeking contributions. Or, you can simply click here to find all the issues needing contribution.

That all being out of the way, here are the open source projects for which we’re seeking your valuable contributions:

Please note that each project will have specific guidelines on how to contribute in general and raise pull requests. Also, each project will have issues listed that you can pick and work on.

Win Swag

By actively participating in Hacktoberfest, you make the open source community more sustainable, and, in turn, this makes you feel at home. Empowering one another is what best depicts the open source philosophy and is a reward in itself.

Visit our article and fill the form from there to get more details about swags.

Let’s have fun with Hacktoberfest 2021!