ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Engadget: If you’re using Microsoft Authenticator to store your passwords, don’t . “Microsoft Authenticator is sunsetting its ability to store your passwords. This month, the service stopped allowing users to add or import new passwords. Beginning in July 2025, users will no longer be able to use autofill with Authenticator, and in August 2025, passwords will no longer be available at all.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/07/engadget-if-youre-using-microsoft-authenticator-to-store-your-passwords-dont/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/07/engadget-if-youre-using-microsoft-authenticator-to-store-your-passwords-dont/</a></p>
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Lars Wirzenius<p>If your software stores passwords in a way that they can be retrieved, and your software isn't a password manager, your software is broken.</p><p>Verifying that a password provided by a user is correct does not require you to store the password. As an industry we knew this in 1978. It has been 0 days since I saw software that violates this.</p><p><a href="https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Password_Storage_Cheat_Sheet.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/che</span><span class="invisible">atsheets/Password_Storage_Cheat_Sheet.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.liw.fi/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> <a href="https://toot.liw.fi/tags/password" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>password</span></a> <a href="https://toot.liw.fi/tags/passwordStorage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>passwordStorage</span></a> <a href="https://toot.liw.fi/tags/authentication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authentication</span></a> <a href="https://toot.liw.fi/tags/rant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rant</span></a></p>
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