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WebAuthn

webauthn.guide

A guide introducing Web Authentication (WebAuthn), a W3C and FIDO specification that lets servers register and authenticate users using public key cryptography instead of passwords. It explains how credentials work, with a private key stored on the user's device and a public key sent to the server, and covers registering credentials and authenticating with them.

Internet Census 2012 is a research paper describing a distributed port scanner built on insecure embedded devices with empty or default credentials. It scanned all IPv4 addresses and includes service probes for common ports, ICMP ping, reverse DNS and SYN scans. Data gathered during the research was released into the public domain.