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Microsoft makes a bold move towards a password-less future

Malwarebytes

In a recent blog Microsoft announced that as of September 15, 2021 you can completely remove the password from your Microsoft account and use the Microsoft Authenticator app, Windows Hello, a security key, or a verification code sent to your phone or email to sign in to Microsoft apps and services. Why get rid of passwords?

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Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

Krebs on Security

Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed piece of software has not been altered or tampered with. Intel 471 shows akafitis@gmail.com was used to register another O.R.Z. user account — this one on Verified[.]ru ru in 2008.

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Podcast Episode 140: passwords are dying. What will replace them?

The Security Ledger

Alpha-numeric passwords have been with us almost since the dawn of the computing age. The post Podcast Episode 140: passwords are. Alpha-numeric passwords have been with us almost since the dawn of the computing age. Half a century later, the password has long since outlived its usefulness. Read the whole entry. »

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Instagram to enhance security of its users

CyberSecurity Insiders

As the image sharing app shares a business platform with WhatsApp, it is also planning to add 2FA authentication through the message sharing application. NOTE- Originally launched for Apple iOS users in 2010, the photo and video sharing app garnered online craze within no time.

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ISaPWN – research on the security of ISaGRAF Runtime

SecureList

The following potential vectors of attacks on ISaGRAF-based devices have been identified: A remote unauthenticated attacker could execute privileged commands of the IXL service on devices with ISaGRAF Runtime versions released before 2010. A remote attacker could easily implement a password brute force attack in ISaGRAF Runtime.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords.

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RSAC insights: Malware is now spreading via weaponized files circulating in data lakes, file shares

The Last Watchdog

Lots of innovation has come down the pike with respect to imbuing zero trust into two pillars of security operations: connectivity and authentication. I had a chance to discuss the latter with Ravi Srinivasan, CEO of Tel Aviv-based Votiro which launched in 2010 and has grown to . But that needs to change, he says.