Security Boulevard

JULY 3, 2023

It involves verifying user identities, controlling access to resources and ensuring proper authentication and authorization processes. With users able to create accounts on any SaaS account, they may use multiple SaaS applications that were not reviewed or sanctioned by IT.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 6, 2021

This change reflects a movement we’re seeing in governments worldwide to be more assertive in improving government agency security. Not surprisingly, these changes primarily focus on government agencies and the vendors who supply them. Service providers are already encouraged to comply with the Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF).

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SC Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

Mandiant Tuesday posted a blog detailing a new attack strategy against Microsoft’s Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS). But the same campaign relied on takeovers of AD FS servers to overtake Microsoft 365 accounts for espionage purposes. Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images).

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is a security tool used by various organizations to protect user credentials, or the username and password. MFA has been recommended, or required, by governments and has grown in popularity as a measure to quickly add a layer of security, especially if credentials are compromised as part of a phishing attack.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 29, 2023

Researchers from Wiz have discovered a way to allow for search engine manipulation and account takeover. Azure Active Directory is a single sign-on and multi-factor authentication service used by organisations around the world. Bypassing authentication resulted in a functional admin panel for the search engine.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 15, 2022

On March 15, 2022, a US government flash bulletin was published describing how state-sponsored cyber actors were able to exploit certain authentication workflows in combination with PrintNightmare vulnerability (CVE-2021-34527) to gain administrative access to Windows domain controllers.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Details are in the Microsoft blog: We have published our in-depth analysis of the Solorigate backdoor malware (also referred to as SUNBURST by FireEye), the compromised DLL that was deployed on networks as part of SolarWinds products, that allowed attackers to gain backdoor access to affected devices.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

As this service has grown, it's become an endless source of material from which I've drawn upon for conference talks, training and indeed many of my blog posts. And this is precisely why I'm writing this piece - to talk about how I'm assisting the UK and Australian governments with access to data about their own domains.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For example, your accounting technology should have features that work to protect your data, like internal controls, multi-factor authentication, or an audit trail that documents change to your data. Monitoring who has made what changes protects your business and holds team members accountable for safe IT practices.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Enabling multi-factor authentication 3. Updating software Cisco Duo is all about cybersecurity, so every week we’re going to publish a blog focused on those respective topics. Unique for Each Account: Avoid reusing passwords across multiple accounts. Using strong passwords and a password manager 2.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Related: Cyber risks spinning out of IoT Credential stuffing and account takeovers – which take full advantage of Big Data, high-velocity software, and automation – inundated the internet in massive surges in 2018 and the first half of 2019, according to multiple reports. If you’re like the majority of users out there, you reuse credentials.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. Dave Kennedy | @hackingdave. Denial-of-Suez attack.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2023

Customers can access a Salesforce Community website in two ways: Authenticated access (requiring login), and guest user access (no login required). This misconfigured Salesforce Community site from the state of Vermont was leaking pandemic assistance loan application data, including names, SSNs, email address and bank account information.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The reality is that cybersecurity is failing to keep up with the growth of SaaS, and CISOs must adopt a governance and risk mindset that aligns with how modern work is done. Traditional frameworks assume that the company controls the endpoint, network access or the authentication method. Prioritization.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Government policymakers decided in the 1990s to promote inherently insecure, nascent Internet technology to be the world’s primary global information infrastructure for all the world’s communications, content, and commerce. Government policymakers decided in the 1990s to de facto nationally abdicate governing online.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 18, 2023

government agency email accounts, but some details remain a mystery. government accounts using a stolen inactive Microsoft account (MSA) consumer signing key. Chinese hacker group Storm-0558 breached an undisclosed number of email accounts belonging to 25 organizations, including U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

It involves compromising email accounts and websites tied to police departments and government agencies, and then sending unauthorized demands for subscriber data while claiming the information being requested can’t wait for a court order because it relates to an urgent matter of life and death. THE LAPSUS$ CONNECTION.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 13, 2024

Multi-Factor Authentication: the mandatory first step for organizations moving to the cloud. million ATO attacks against their customers -The SolarWinds attack that compromised victim’s Microsoft365 accounts hit 100 companies and 9 US Federal Agencies.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

In each attack, the victims saw their email and financial accounts compromised after suffering an unauthorized SIM-swap, wherein attackers transferred each victim’s mobile phone number to a new device that they controlled. The government says Urban went by the aliases “ Sosa ” and “ King Bob ,” among others.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 19, 2024

NHIs come in the form of API keys, OAuth tokens, service accounts, and secrets, and are created daily by employees as they delegate access to external entities to automate tasks and increase business efficiency. The post What are non-human identities? appeared first on Astrix Security. The post What are non-human identities?

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2021

Microsoft said it notified the targeted 150 organizations, which included “IT companies (57%), followed by government (20%), and smaller percentages for non-governmental organizations and think tanks, as well as financial services.” In this case, the attackers leveraged information gleaned from a Microsoft worker’s computing device.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

It involves the use of software automation to insert stolen usernames and passwords into web page forms, at scale, until the attacker gains access to a targeted account. It’s totally understandable that government officials skewed toward lax authentication in getting Covid-19 relief payments out very quickly and very broadly.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Today, the SaaS service layer consists of billions of user-SaaS relationships, connections, and activity—dwarfing the digital footprints of IaaS and PaaS—accounting for more than 75 percent of cloud services used by today’s organizations, according to Cisco. Figure 1.1 – Multi-layered Cloud Security.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

FortiGuard Labs researchers observed a worrisome level of attacks attempting to exploit an authentication bypass vulnerability in TBK DVR devices. Threat actors are attempting to exploit a five-year-old authentication bypass issue, tracked as CVE-2018-9995 (CVSS score of 9.8), in TBK DVR devices.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 10, 2023

We spoke with our blog volunteers to get their insights into what best practices their companies are following, along with how you can get on a path to better identity management. These attacks have become more complex and challenging to detect, leading to increased instances of data breaches, account takeovers, and impersonation attacks.

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Centraleyes

MAY 20, 2024

The assessment takes into account governance, security, and identity management challenges. This may include: Manage identities Offboarding accounts Checking administrative privileges Data governance involves quality assurance Review privileged user credentials Reduce the number of accounts with privileged access.

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McAfee

AUGUST 11, 2021

As outlined in Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (EO 14028), Section 3: Modernizing Federal Government Cybersecurity, CISA has been tasked with developing a Federal cloud-security strategy to aid agencies in the adoption of a Zero Trust Architecture to meet the EO Requirements.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 16, 2021

An analysis of the malicious file and other submissions by the same VirusTotal user suggest the account that initially flagged the backdoor as suspicious belongs to IT personnel at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), a division of the U.S. Both Microsoft and FireEye published blog posts on Mar.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2022

These Russian cyber actors are government organizations and include other parties who take their orders from the Russian military or intelligence organizations – while not technically under government control. Accounting for humans. allied countries, and businesses steadily increases. Related: Cyber espionage is in a Golden Age.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

. “As early as 2022, APT28 actors had utilized compromised EdgeRouters to facilitate covert cyber operations against governments, militaries, and organizations around the world.” and foreign governments and military, security, and corporate organizations. ” reads the joint report. ” continues the report. .

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Government assistance can be essential to individual wellbeing and economic stability. This was clear during the COVID-19 pandemic, when governments issued trillions of dollars in economic relief. Related: Fido champions passwordless authentication. The agency manually verifies the data and stores it in a government database.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

Chinese hackers employed open-source tools for reconnaissance and vulnerability scanning, according to the government experts, they have utilized open-source router specific software frameworks, RouterSploit and RouterScan [ T1595.002 ], to identify vulnerable devices to target. Protect these accounts with strict network policies [ D3-UAP ].

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Company officials also used the first week of October – which is Cybersecurity Awareness Month – to remind users of the company’s plan to enable two-factor authentication by default to many accounts, and that it will enable it for 150 million accounts before the end of 2021.

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NetSpi Technical

JANUARY 18, 2024

Time-Based One-Time Password (TOTP) Time-Based One-Time Password (TOTP) is a common two-factor authentication (2FA) mechanism used across the internet. During authentication, the secret is used in combination with the time in a cryptographic hash function to produce a secure 6-digit passcode. Would the app still let me authenticate?

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Related: How IAM authenticates users. So far, companies still have lots of manual processes when it comes to provisioning: Often, admins will create accounts and enter data manually into CRM and HR applications – an error-prone and slow process without any capabilities for proper compliance and audit reporting. Reduce manual processes.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2024

The last couple weeks have brought a few discussions on the topic of multifactor authentication or MFA (sometimes also referred to as 2FA or two factor authentication). These discussions have been driven by the SEC’s X (formerly known as Twitter) account being hacked in order to goose the price of Bitcoin.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 10, 2019

From there, the attackers simply start requesting password reset links via text message for a variety of accounts tied to the hijacked phone number. All told, the government said this gang — allegedly known to its members as “ The Community ” — made more than $2.4 man who goes by the hacker name “Phobia.”

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