Heimadal Security

MARCH 4, 2022

The threat actors had targeted T-Mobile servers involved in development, staging, and production. To prove the authenticity of the T-Mobile data breach, threat actors shared a print screen of […]. The post Victims of the T-Mobile 2021 Data Leak Are in Danger of Identity Theft appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

As technology has evolved, fingers (and palms and irises and faces) have increasingly been used as a means of biometric authentication. The one in storage matches the one provided at the time of authentication. All this compared to simply matching 2 strings as is done with password authentication. That is all.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2022

Telecommunication giant T-Mobile confirmed the LAPSUS$ extortion group gained access to its networks in March. Telecom company T-Mobile on Friday revealed that LAPSUS$ extortion gang gained access to its networks. ” LAPSUS$ leader White/Lapsus Jobs looking up the Department of Defense in T-Mobile’s internal Atlas system.

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BH Consulting

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But what happens if you think your mobile has been breached? In this blog, we’ll look at how you can minimise the impact of your personal mobile being compromised. Check and protect what you value most Identify the important apps or files on your mobile phone. (Do Encrypt the data stored on your mobile phone.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

A recent spate of SMS phishing attacks from one cybercriminal group has spawned a flurry of breach disclosures from affected companies, which are all struggling to combat the same lingering security threat: The ability of scammers to interact directly with employees through their mobile devices. Image: Cloudflare.com. According to an Aug.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 4, 2023

From these instances the group reaches out through Teams messages and persuades targets to approve multi-factor authentication (MFA) prompts initiated by the attacker. In both cases they require the user to enter a code that is displayed during the authentication flow into the prompt on the Microsoft Authenticator app on their mobile device.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 11, 2024

This is the third article in a guest blog series from Intellyx. The post Blog: Why Hackers Love Phones – Keep your Eye on the Device appeared first on Security Boulevard. Catch up on the first article here and the second one here.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Risk-Based Authentication (RBA) intelligently leverages more secure forms of authentication—like verified push—to help organizations respond to risk and step-up security measures to frustrate attackers, not trusted users. How does Risk-Based authentication reduce third-party risk?

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Once you’ve done that though, a critical next step is answering this question: Once you remove the password, what exactly are users going to use to authenticate? Evaluating your authentication options Duo has always focused on providing a variety of authentication options for end users.

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DoublePulsar

JULY 25, 2023

MobileIron aka EPMM, a widely used Mobile Device Management product from Ivanti, has a crucial flaw — it has an API endpoint which requires no authentication whatsoever. In this blog we take a look at MobileIrony, aka CVE-2023–35078. This should have been front and center on the public Ivanti blog, in my opinion.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Duo's two-factor authentication (2FA)/ multi-factor authentication (MFA) offers several methods through which users can verify their identity before being granted access to applications. Today, we'll showcase Step 1, in which we cover the various authentication methods Duo offers.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In February, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about a novel cybercrime service that helped attackers intercept the one-time passwords (OTPs) that many websites require as a second authentication factor in addition to passwords. That is true two-factor authentication: Something you have, and something you know (and maybe also even something you are).

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Underground services are cropping up that are designed to enable bad actors to intercept one-time passwords (OTPs), which are widely used in two-factor authentication programs whose purpose is to better protect customers’ online accounts. By using the services, cybercriminals can gain access to victims’ accounts to steal money.

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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. As a first step, organizations need to modernize their authentication, moving away from RADIUS or LDAP protocols and moving towards SAML.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 30, 2021

What’s Coming I’m excited to share that Cisco is announcing Duo’s passwordless authentication. Duo passwordless authentication will be available for public preview beginning summer 2021. The FIDO Alliance’s FIDO2 specification, built upon the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) standard, laid the foundation for passwordless authentication.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 24, 2023

Last week, T-Mobile disclosed that the personally identifiable information (PII) of 37 million of its past and present customers had been breached in an API attack. They also shared that the attack had been going on since November but was only caught January 5 by T-Mobile’s security team. Was the API known to T-Mobile?

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Security Boulevard

JULY 4, 2022

In a previous article we saw how to protect API keys by using Mobile App Attestation and delegating the API requests to a Proxy. The post Hands-on Mobile App and API Security – Runtime Secrets Protection appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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SC Magazine

MAY 7, 2021

Google announced that it will automatically enroll users in multifactor authentication – what they are calling two-step verification. Using their mobile device to sign in gives people a safer and more secure authentication experience than passwords alone,” Risher said. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images).

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 2, 2021

What is Passwordless Authentication? For those wondering what “passwordless” even means - here’s a quick definition: Passwordless authentication establishes a strong assurance of a user's identity without relying on passwords. “I I define passwordless authentication as the act of authenticating without a shared secret.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 23, 2021

In early 2019, we embarked on a project to improve the Duo Mobile user authentication experience. It was a daunting task, considering we haven’t changed the Duo Mobile application in over seven years. Fighting Fraud by Humanizing the Push Screen Authentication is hard!

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

With hybrid and fully remote work becoming more mainstream, more employees than ever are using both personal and corporate mobiles to access company data. This leaves security teams scrambling to implement best practices for mobile device security. Fortunately, Duo makes implementing mobile security policies simple.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 4, 2021

So, how can we ride the digital wave for financial services and shape an innovative mobile experience that customers use in the long term? Our Digital First blog series. The blogs will cover: Ways banks can introduce stronger, yet still seamless, levels of authentication to protect the technology and prevent fraud.

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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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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

Multi-factor authentication is one of the best ways to thwart bad actors using stolen credentials — but it’s not foolproof. The attacker is sending a user through a proxy and retrieving credentials and/or session tokens by manipulating the end user into thinking they are authenticating into a legitimate resource or application.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 19, 2022

More and more frequently, our team at NuData is called upon to support clients in improving the security and user experience (UX) behind their mobile services, most often to complement existing desktop practices. The post 3 Burning Questions About Mobile Security, Answered appeared first on NuData Security.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Perhaps most famously, the team sent a phone equipped with Duo mobile into space — attempting to complete a Duo push from 90,000 feet. It’s one thing to have the company blog (look, I’m writing here right now!). Folks thinking about the future of authentication, from passkeys to decentralized identity.

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Pentester Academy

MARCH 23, 2023

Lab Walkthrough — Moodle SpellChecker Path Authenticated RCE [CVE-2021–21809] In our lab walkthrough series, we go through selected lab exercises on our INE Platform. Also, to access the upgrade.txt file, we do not need any authentication. Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2023

But O’Connor also pleaded guilty in a separate investigation involving a years-long spree of cyberstalking and cryptocurrency theft enabled by “ SIM swapping ,” a crime wherein fraudsters trick a mobile provider into diverting a customer’s phone calls and text messages to a device they control. I haven’t done anything.”

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

First of all, this blog was written by a human being! Now that that's out of the way, let's get onto our main topic for today which is to take a look at ChatGPT and use it to understand some key aspects of mobile security. The post ChatGPT and API Security appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 10, 2021

Guest Blog: TalkingTrust. The same rings true for encryption and authentication. Infotainment and remote diagnostics threats : a remote attack via linked mobile devices or altering information from vehicle diagnostics systems. What’s driving the security of IoT? Thu, 03/11/2021 - 07:39.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a well-known and well-established protection that many organizations rely on. Several common authentication methods include the use of one-time passcodes (OTP). a computer) and the user inputs that code in the Duo Mobile application. And that also makes it a target for cybercriminals.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 7, 2023

A passkey is a phishing-resistant cryptographic keypair you register for web-based authentication. It’s the strongest authentication method available today, which is why you see passkeys moving to replace passwords altogether. See the video at the blog post. What is a passkey?

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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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Krebs on Security

MAY 10, 2019

A separate criminal complaint unsealed this week charges three former employees of mobile phone providers accused of collaborating with The Community’s members. Several of those charged have been mentioned by this blog previously. city employee Ricky Joseph Handschumacher , charging him with grand theft and money laundering.

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Pen Test Partners

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

October 2023’s Cyber Security Awareness Month led to a flurry of blog posts about a new attack called Quishing (QR Code phishing) and how new AI powered email gateways can potentially block these attacks. Mobile security All this makes it harder to exploit a desktop end user, but in a mobile world its very different.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2022

A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit the flaw to bypass authentication and log in to the device through the management interface. The vulnerability resides in the authentication feature of Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) Software. ” reads the advisory published by Cisco. or Release 8.10.162.0 or Release 8.10.162.0

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