Articles by Passwork Team

Latest — Nov 9, 2026
Eight characters, a required symbol, a new password every 90 days: SP 800-63B-4 rules out all three for password-only...

NIST password guidelines 2026: What SP 800-63B-4 requires

Eight characters, a required symbol, a new password every 90 days: SP 800-63B-4 rules out all three for password-only sign-in. Here is what NIST's final standard requires, and a four-part check to run against your live system.

NIST password guidelines 2026: What SP 800-63B-4 requires
Nov 6, 2026 — 10 min read
Northflank told customers to assume every environment variable was decrypted. Railway warned some may have been, and...

Northflank breach: What to rotate after the incident

Northflank told customers to assume every environment variable was decrypted. Railway warned some may have been, and Huntress tracked stolen M365 tokens replayed at 79 organizations. What each disclosed, and what to rotate.

Northflank breach: What to rotate after the incident
Oct 30, 2026 — 6 min read
Discover how MSPs can enhance their service offerings with managed password management, addressing client security...

Password management for MSPs: Turn client needs into recurring revenue

Discover how MSPs can enhance their service offerings with managed password management, addressing client security needs while generating recurring revenue.

Password management for MSPs: Turn client needs into recurring revenue
Oct 29, 2026 — 23 min read
From policy to practice: who had access to what, with whose approval, for how long, and can you prove it? Five...

NIS2 access management: What five experts would fix first

From policy to practice: who had access to what, with whose approval, for how long, and can you prove it? Five cybersecurity leaders on the access controls that are hardest to operationalize, and the evidence organizations need to demonstrate that they work.

NIS2 access management: What five experts would fix first
Oct 28, 2026 — 9 min read
A key leaked in May helped poison a release in October. Five recent incidents, from LiteLLM to Zeabur, show what...

LiteLLM supply chain attack, Zeabur breach, Gheist: Unrevoked credentials

A key leaked in May helped poison a release in October. Five recent incidents, from LiteLLM to Zeabur, show what happens when credentials outlive their purpose.

LiteLLM supply chain attack, Zeabur breach, Gheist: Unrevoked credentials
Oct 22, 2026 — 1 min read
We have released an updated Passwork Docker image with patched PHP (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619). If you run...

Update: PHP security fix for Passwork

We have released an updated Passwork Docker image with patched PHP (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619). If you run Passwork 7 or later in Docker, update today.

Update: PHP security fix for Passwork
Oct 21, 2026 — 3 min read
Warning: critical PHP vulnerabilities. CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 can allow an unauthenticated attacker to run...

PHP vulnerabilities: Updates and guidance

Warning: critical PHP vulnerabilities. CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 can allow an unauthenticated attacker to run code on a server that runs PHP, PHP-FPM included. Both score 9.2 on CVSS v4.0, and the PHP project says updating is the only complete fix. On-premise Passwork administrators...

PHP vulnerabilities: Updates and guidance
Oct 13, 2026 — 5 min read
Pegnitz, a Bavarian town near Nuremberg, ran municipal IT on a file-based vault that couldn't handle concurrent access,...

Stadt Pegnitz: Solving file-sync conflicts with Passwork

Pegnitz, a Bavarian town near Nuremberg, ran municipal IT on a file-based vault that couldn't handle concurrent access, forcing administrators to coordinate every edit verbally. The team moved to Passwork's self-hosted platform for real-time, multi-user credential access.

Stadt Pegnitz: Solving file-sync conflicts  with Passwork
Oct 13, 2026 — 6 min read
Auerbach in der Oberpfalz, a Bavarian town of 9,470 residents, ran municipal IT on two file-based password managers...

Stadt Auerbach: Zero-knowledge security with Passwork

Auerbach in der Oberpfalz, a Bavarian town of 9,470 residents, ran municipal IT on two file-based password managers prone to sync failures and with no role-based access control. The team moved to Passwork's zero-knowledge platform to close that security gap.

Stadt Auerbach: Zero-knowledge security with Passwork
Oct 6, 2026 — 14 min read
In September, attackers skipped the password: a forged JWT, a device-code approval, an overprivileged Cloudflare API...

September 2026 cybersecurity news: Forged tokens and leaked keys

In September, attackers skipped the password: a forged JWT, a device-code approval, an overprivileged Cloudflare API key that exposed 100,000+ sites. See what happened and which token and key controls to fix first.

September 2026 cybersecurity news: Forged tokens and leaked keys