Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Why Do Apps Sign You Out??”.
You know what really charres my veal when websites or apps you’re, using randomly sign you out at the worst possible time. Your boss has sent you something urgent, but you can’t reply in time due to the rigor moral of signing back in your two-factor ass mess and everything and suddenly you’re, unemployed and out on the streets hey. If it happened to me, it could happen to you. Okay, maybe it’s not that dire, but services that end your session with no warning are infuriating, so why does it happen? Typically, it comes down to the service trying to keep you secure in some way and i get it staying safe online is super important, but why is signing you out a solution? Typically, services can sign you out after a certain amount of time has passed since your last sign-in or since you were last active.
This is to help prevent an attacker who is broken into your account from having access to it indefinitely. Let’S say that someone gets into your pc where you’re already signed into a service that you use all the time having an expiration date on your session, which can be done through the use of cookies. If you’re going through a web browser means that, at some point the attacker will need to actually have your password and possibly your two-factor device to get back in different services can set very different, sign-in intervals, explaining why you might never have problems with something like twitter, While gmail can be very annoying when you’re trying to pull up an important work message or a sheet or a dock, of course, this sign in duration thing isn’t exactly foolproof, so a service might make you sign back in if it detects something as a miss through A technique called fingerprinting.
This is when a service collects data on you to make it easier to identify you, and although this obviously raises privacy concerns, it can help from a security perspective. For example, sites can track everything from your location to the size of the screen. You’Re using to your audio configuration and if there’s enough of a change in those things, the next time you use a service, it may trigger a request to sign in again, just in case these changes aren’t the result of simply using your laptop in a different location. When you get off the airplane and it’s actually the result of an attacker trying to drain your bank account, but because fingerprinting has plenty of privacy conscious critics, certain browsers are trying to make it difficult for services to track you for any reason.
Therefore, it’s becoming more common for browsers to block or delete tracking cookies, especially if they originate from a different domain. One funny example is: if you’re trying to use microsoft teams, your browser might be deleting cookies from skype.com, which actually ties into the team’s service. So you might get prompt to sign in more often than you’d expect or even more often than microsoft themselves would like thanks microsoft, alright, fine! All this inconvenience is here to keep me safe. That might be all right if this actually worked as intended, but it often doesn’t sometimes you can get signed out, because your organization doesn’t manage saved credentials correctly. A huge problem with services often used for office communications, like teams other times authentication issues, can rear their ugly heads.
For example, the much-aligned microsoft teams works together with the microsoft authenticator app if you’re trying to use it on a smartphone. So if teams is misbehaving, you might burn lots of time trying to solve the issue with the team’s app itself, when the actual solution is to clear the authenticator’s cache and restart it. So the bottom line is that, unless something on your device or within your organization is configured incorrectly, you might be at the mercy of the services themselves, so stay cool.
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