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Pull Interactions from POSSEd Content

I just introduced a new feature on the website! 🎉 As usual, whenever content is POSSEd (Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere), you will find links to the syndicated content at the bottom of the page. Now, you will also see a small link to “toggle the interaction crawler”. This will open (or hide) a small form, where you can select available (and supported) social media platforms to crawl for interaction counts. This is in line with what I was discussing a few weeks ago about webmen

Forget passwords often? Android may soon let you disable Failed Authentication Lock (APK teardown)

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Android 15 and newer devices include a Failed Authentication Lock feature that locks the device screen after detecting multiple failed login attempts in apps or settings. Unlike other theft protection features, this feature is enabled by default on all devices, and there’s currently no way for users to turn it off. Google may soon add a new option to the theft protection settings that will allow users to turn off Failed Authentication Lock. In additio

Citrix warns of login issues after NetScaler auth bypass patch

Citrix warns that patching recently disclosed vulnerabilities that can be exploited to bypass authentication and launch denial-of-service attacks may also break login pages on NetScaler ADC and Gateway appliances. This happens because starting with NetScaler 14.1.47.46 and 13.1.59.19, the Content Security Policy (CSP) header, which mitigates risks associated with cross-site scripting (XSS), code injection, and other client-side attacks, is enabled by default. However, while it is designed to b

Identity theft hits 1.1M reports — and authentication fatigue is only getting worse

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more From passwords to passkeys to a veritable alphabet soup of other options — second-factor authentication (2FA)/one-time passwords (OTP), multi-factor authentication (MFA), single sign-on (SSO), silent network authentication (SNA) — when it comes to a preeminent or even preferred type of identity authentication, there is little consensus amo

Microsoft confirms auth issues affecting Microsoft 365 users

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing incident that is causing users to experience errors with some Microsoft 365 authentication features. As the company revealed earlier today in an incident alert published in the admin center, users may experience errors during self-service password resets, while admins may be unable to add multi-factor authentication (MFA) sign-in methods to some users. Redmond says this incident is caused by a recent change aiming to improve MFA sign-in functionality. Sinc

Trend Micro fixes critical vulnerabilities in multiple products

Trend Micro has released security updates to address multiple critical-severity remote code execution and authentication bypass vulnerabilities that impact its Apex Central and Endpoint Encryption (TMEE) PolicyServer products. The security vendor underlines that it has seen no evidence of active exploitation in the wild for any of them. However, immediate application of the security updates is recommended to address the risks. Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption PolicyServer is a central managemen

Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure

Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure You're happily working away, fingers flying, deep in flow, and suddenly, boink, your session has expired. You sigh, re-enter your password (again), complete an MFA challenge (again), maybe approve an email notification (again), and finally — access restored. Until next time. This wasn't so bad when it was just passwords; we all got pretty fast at retyping our passwords. But all those MFA challenges really slow us down. And MFA fatigue attacks, a gro

Microsoft fixes Windows Server auth issues caused by April updates

Microsoft has fixed a known issue causing authentication problems on Windows Server domain controllers after installing the April 2025 security updates. Platforms affected by these problems include Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022, and the latest version, Windows Server 2025. However, as Microsoft further explained when it acknowledged this known issue in early May, home users are unlikely to be impacted since domain controllers are typically used in enterprise aut