Your Passkey is Weak: Phishing the Unphishable

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While passkeys are being touted as the end of phishing, they might be putting your organization at even more risk. In this talk I will demonstrate a relatively straightforward phishing attack against “phishing-resistant” synced passkeys and provide guidance and advice for responsible passkey usage. Chad is a teenage hacker turned cybersecurity expert who studied under the best in his field at UNC-CH, UCSB’s SecLab, IBM Research, and was a lead researcher at MIT LL where he played a pivotal role in various high-impact projects for the US DoD. He has broken every authentication system under the sun and has committed his career to doing better for our society.