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Simplify and secure your online accounts and logins with the MIRkey

As online platforms and social media becomes increasingly important for social and professional purposes, it also becomes more important to implement strong security measures. Those measures have evolved and today, just having a strong password is simply not enough. Let’s face it: no matter how strong your password is, or what level of authentication the website you are accessing is using, a skilled hacker can still compromise your login credentials.

The state of cryptocurrency theft - Cryptocurrency malware is now an economy

• $1.1 billion – the amount of cryptocurrency-related thefts during the last six months
• 12,000 – the estimated number of dark web marketplaces
• 34,000 – the number of cryptocurrency-related theft offerings
• $6.7 million – the monetary worth of the illegal economy comprising cryptocurrency-related malware development and sales
• 55,000 cryptocurrency users affected in Bitpoint's $28 million hack

All-In-One Cryptocurrency Wallet and USB Security Key to Secure Accounts Against Phishing

The volume and severity of phishing attacks are increasing daily with the most prevalent forms of phishing involving tricking users to visit and log into fake websites, where hackers steal your password to use on the actual website. The sophistication with which hackers execute their attacks makes it increasingly difficult to distinguish between real and fake websites.

Beyond Two factor Authentication - How a hardware security key implementing FIDO can improve online security

Remember the good old days, when using only a username and password (or, one-factor authentication) was considered secure? It was, in fact, not. Even before Julian Assange broke into the Pentagon, systems were compromised using brute-force password attacks. You can think of one-factor authentication as "something you know" which means that whoever knows your password, can access your account.

Myth debunked - Password safes and security keys are not the same thing

Passwords managers (or password safes as they are also known) such as LastPass, Dashlane, and Enpass are often confused with hardware security keys. Of course, one can use a hardware security key to secure a password safe and, in this context, a hardware security key can complement a password manager. But before we get into the technicalities, let’s first define the concepts “password manager” and “hardware security key” whereafter we’ll delve into the differences between the two concepts in order to highlight why a hardware security key is the superior option.

Good bye passwords, hello security keys

The use of a password is an ancient concept. You can see in your mind’s eye a medieval guard at the door asking, slightly slurred, “what’s the password?” and then either letting you “pass” with the right “word” - or chopping off your head if you get it wrong.

Unfortunately this ancient concept has been transferred into the digital domain with dire consequences.

Thankfully, with the advent of Webauthn and hardware security keys we can see the end in sight.

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