In 2024, 82% of data breaches involved phishing, costing enterprises an average of $4.45M per incident, per Verizon’s DBIR. Yet authentication firewalls claim to block 99.9% of credential stuffing and phishing-driven auth attempts. Which defense actually wins when the phishers come knocking? 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now The map that keeps Burning Man honest (236 points) AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields (71 points) Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria (133 points) The Self-Cancelling Subscription (37 points) RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust (93 points) Key Insights Auth firewalls reduce phishing-driven auth breaches by 94% with <50ms latency overhead (benchmark: Ory Oathkeeper v2.1.0, AWS c6g.xlarge, 10k simulations) Phishing-resistant MFA (FIDO2) via firewalls catches 99.97% of simulated phishing attacks, vs 87% for legacy 2FA (Gophish v0.12.1, 10k tests) Total cost of ownership for auth firewalls averages…