Krebs on Security

MARCH 16, 2021

SMS text messages were already the weakest link securing just about anything online, mainly because there are tens of thousands of employees at mobile stores who can be tricked or bribed into swapping control over a mobile phone number to someone else. “It’s an industry-wide thing.

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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. Prosecutors say Noah Michael Urban of Palm Coast, Fla., On July 28 and again on Aug. According to an Aug.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Today’s generation of kids and teens consider their devices and the Internet as extensions of their lives. So without further ado, let’s dive into what we should be teaching our kids about Internet safety and what we can do to enforce these teachings. 7 Internet safety tips. Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA).

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Brad Marden , superintendent of cybercrime operations for the Australian Federal Police (AFP), said their investigation into who was behind U-Admin began in late 2018, after Australian citizens began getting deluged with phishing attacks via mobile text messages that leveraged the software. The U-Admin phishing panel interface. Image: fr3d.hk/blog.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 10, 2021

Guest Blog: TalkingTrust. There are so many reasons why manufacturers connect their products to the Internet, whether it’s industrial machines, medical devices, consumer goods or even cars. The problem becomes – how do we make sure we’re securing these “driving data centers” against the risks and threats that lurk on the Internet?

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Background This problem really came to a head when the internet rapidly grew from a government project to a major medium for electronic commercial transactions. Thanks to the application of advanced math and science, Public Key Cryptography was used to develop a means of securing ecommerce over the internet.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2020

Records of 45 Million+ travelers to Thailand and Malaysia Leaked on #Darkweb (Blog Link) [link] #infosec #leaks #CyberSecurity pic.twitter.com/zHOujQ8CMm — Cyble (@AuCyble) July 12, 2020. The leaked traveler’s records include Passenger ID, Full Name, Mobile Number, Passport Details, Address, Gender, and Flight Details.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2023

Researchers discovered a bypass for a recently fixed actively exploited vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM). Rapid7 cybersecurity researchers have discovered a bypass for the recently patched actively exploited vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM). and below). . and below of the product.”

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Wikipedia uses a CMS for textual entries, blog posts, images, photographs, videos, charts, graphics, and “ talk pages ” that help its many contributors collaborate. Security is also necessary if your retrieval system (such as a website or mobile app) has a paywall or is restricted to only a subset of people, such as customers or resellers.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 23, 2023

Your passwords are on the internet. Passwords are a weak point in modern-day secure authentication practices, with Verizon highlighting that almost 50% of breaches start with compromised credentials. These habits highlight the need for more modern password technology and stronger authentication methods.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

With this release, many high security and low friction authentication methods were made available. It is behind the widescale growth of ecommerce on the internet. WebAuthn allows servers to register and authenticate users using Public Key Cryptography. In November 2022, we announced the general availability of Duo Passwordless.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2019

His blog, Krebs on Security , was knocked down alright. The author of Mirai used a sledgehammer to kill a fly: the DDoS bombardment was so large that it also wiped out Dyn , a UK-based internet performance vendor. It’s easy to do when there are six million open DNS resolvers on the internet using poor security practices.”.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It’s important to note here that the goal isn’t to eliminate every trace of yourself from the internet and never go online again. Set up strong authentication using multi-factor authentication wherever it is supported. One way experts have improved login security is through the use of multi-factor authentication.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 6, 2021

With the introduction of lockdowns across the globe, our reliance on internet networks to work remotely, call relatives across seas, or even to take part in leisure activities via a screen has soared. However, many mobile operators have not seemingly jumped upon this trend, continuing to onboard customers at brick-and-mortar stores.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 20, 2019

Don’t look now, but evidence is mounting that the mobile threats landscape is on the threshold of getting a lot more dicey. This is because mobile services and smartphone functionalities are rapidly expanding, and, as you might expect, cyberattacks targeting mobile devices and services are also rising sharply.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2020

The answer is not immediate, but due to the various layers of protection during the authentication process that a system imposes on us today, there is a need to validate authenticity and legitimacy during this action. In a simplified way, 10 steps are necessary for a successful authentication in the target homebanking portal.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 4, 2023

See the video at the blog post. Passwordless is this next paradigm in authentication where we don’t have to rely on human-created passwords and credentials. People have already gotten pretty comfortable with these flows because of mobile devices having biometric support over the past five, almost 10 years now, at this point.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

In this blog, we take a deeper dive into cloud security topics from these predictions focusing on the targeting of API services and apps exploitation of containers in 2022. Recent statistics suggest that more than 80% of all internet traffic belongs to API-based services. Internet of Things – More than 30.9 Orchestrator.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2020

These issues affect the following Cisco products running a vulnerable software release: Cisco Modeling Labs Corporate Edition (CML) Cisco Virtual Internet Routing Lab Personal Edition (VIRL-PE). The two flaws, tracked as CVE-2020-11651 and CVE-2020-11652, are a directory traversal issue and an authentication bypass vulnerability respectively.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2023

APIs then played an important role in the birth of the Internet, offering a way for applications to exchange data across the Internet via a specific set of protocols. Mobile applications and software solutions leverage APIs to access data and make it available to their end users.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 12, 2018

Department of Defense (DoD) generally handles unclassified documents such as these through the “Non-classified Internet Protocol Router Network,” or NIPRNet. It essentially functions as a private network used to exchange unclassified information, while also providing Internet access. The discussion revolves around securing DoD HVAs.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The internet has drawn comparisons to the Wild West, making ransomware the digital incarnation of a hold-up. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received 3,729 ransomware complaints in 2021, representing $49.2 Bolster your monitoring and email authentication capabilities. Prevalence. million in adjusted losses.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 30, 2022

The key advantages of having IoT in healthcare include: Medical mobility: IoT helps in tracking and getting alerts when any critical change in a patient's parameter occurs, aiding in locating and providing direct assistance in real-time. They serve to identify and authenticate the various connected devices to the organization’s network.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers. federal civilian agencies to secure the login credentials for their Internet domain records. That changed on Jan.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 14, 2021

In their oversight, 35% of businesses made their cloud storage publicly accessible, meaning anyone could access it from the internet. Duo’s multi-factor authentication secures access to all applications from any device, whether it’s corporate-owned or BYOD.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long, long way since precocious students at Carnegie Melon University installed micro-switches inside of a Coca-Cola vending machine so they could remotely check on the temperature and availability of their favorite beverages. Related: Companies sustain damage from IoT attacks That was back in 1982.

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NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Turn on Multifactor Authentication Even strong, secure passwords can be exposed by attackers. Leveraging multifactor authentication (MFA) can prevent exposed passwords from being used. Most corporate multifactor solutions now offer number matching to prevent users from accidentally accepting a rogue authentication request.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Start with a zero-trust framework that begins at the access request with strong multi-factor authentication (MFA). Designed to support every user login scenario from offline to limited cell service and internet connectivity. Duo’s modern access security protects your users and applications by using a second source of validation.

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SC Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

In a blog, Sophos researchers explain how the attackers – which the researchers believe could all be operated by the same group – used social engineering, counterfeit websites, including a fake iOS App Store download page, and an iOS app-testing website to distribute the fake apps to their victims. Do not make it easy for them.

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BH Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The next most popular ruse is to ask for the recipient’s mobile number or personal email address. Separately, the security provider Cloudflare said that identity deception like that used in BEC scams can “easily bypass email authentication standards”. MORE Meet Window Snyder, whose pioneering work helped make the internet safer.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Slickwraps is an online store that offers for sale skins mobile devices, laptops, smartphones, tablets, and gaming consoles. A cyber security expert that goes online with the moniker of Lynx0x00 published a blog post detailing his failed attempts of reporting the vulnerability on Slickwraps’ servers to the company.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

Employees deserve safe and easy access to on-premises applications so they can stay productive, no matter where they are working from – an office, a dentist office, coffee shop, home, or any other place with a reliable Internet connection. Cyber threats can come from anywhere – they don’t just originate from “outside” corporate perimeters.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2020

For all individual computing device users, think twice before you open an email attachment, click to a link or download a new mobile app. Make sure you do everything possible to secure your mobile devices and that both the firmware and software are routinely updated. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.).

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

I suggested some form of mobile-based multi-factor authentication option would prevent stolen credentials from turning into instant access. He said the company does use app/mobile based authentication for several of its new products and some internal programs, but allowed that “the legacy ones probably did not have this feature.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 18, 2021

A father sits with his daughter to set up her very first mobile phone, all from the comfort of their own home. The same is also true for machines which speak to other machines as part of the Internet of Things (IoT). For a consumer, this might be the details they use to log onto their mobile banking app on their phone.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 31, 2021

In our previous blog post , we discussed the challenges for securing IoT deployments, and how businesses and consumers benefit from authenticating and validating IoT software and firmware updates. My thanks go to my colleague Welland Chu for his valuable input into this blog. Internet Of Things. Tue, 06/01/2021 - 06:55.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Whether it is a software upgrade for a program, a mobile application, or firmware for a device, code is signed, sealed, and delivered, and you are left with the future in your hands! It ensures provenance, authenticity, and integrity. That is not much different from what happens with software and firmware code signing today.

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