SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

These initiatives include: fixing cybersecurity vulnerabilities, tightening policies and practices for privileged users, implementing multi-factor authentication procedures and so on. Cybersecurity Threats Plague Energy Groups.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2020

The expert Bhavuk Jain received an award of $100,000 for reporting a severe security issue in ‘Sign in with Apple’ authentication bypass bug that could allow the takeover of third-party user accounts. . The accounts are protected with two-factor authentication, and Apple does not track users’ activity in their app or website.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Experts from Qualys Research Labs discovered four high-severity security flaws in OpenBSD, one of which is a type authentication bypass issue. Researchers from Qualys Research Labs discovered four high-severity security vulnerabilities in OpenBSD, a type authentication bypass issue and three privilege escalation bugs.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

The authentication process via German eID cards with RFID chips is flawed, an attacker could impersonate any other citizen. The nightmare comes true, the authentication process via German eID cards with RFID chips is flawed and a flaw could allow an attacker to allow identity spoofing and changing the date of birth. tax service).

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2019

Security experts at Plugin Vulnerabilities have discovered an authenticated Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) flaw in Facebook Widget. Researchers at Plugin Vulnerabilities have discovered an authenticated Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) flaw in the Facebook Widget (Widget for Facebook Page Feeds). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2020

DigiLocker provides an account in cloud to every Aadhaar holder to access authentic documents/certificates such as driving license, vehicle registration, academic mark sheet in digital format from the original issuers of these certificates. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2021

military and government employees and giving it to an Islamic State hacker group in 2015 has been charged once again with fraud and identity theft. In December 2015, Ferizi was apprehended in Malaysia and extradited to the United States. A hacker serving a 20-year sentence for stealing personal data on 1,300 U.S.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2018

The researchers that have tracked Bitcoin addresses managed by the crime gang discovered that crooks behind the SamSam ransomware had extorted nearly $6 million from the victims since December 2015 when it appeared in the threat landscape. Million since late 2015. Million since late 2015 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

“I was able to answer the credit report questions successfully, which authenticated me to their system,” Turner said. That’s because Experian does not offer any type of multi-factor authentication options on consumer accounts. But now he’s wondering what else he could do to prevent another account compromise.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The vulnerability affects the way Microsoft applications use OAuth for authentication, these applications trust certain third-party domains and sub-domains that are not registered by Microsoft. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Disable non-used applications.”

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Centraleyes

MAY 17, 2024

The infamous 2015 hack by the St. Strong Authentication: Implement multi-factor authentication. Strong Authentication: Implement multi-factor authentication. Louis Cardinals into the Houston Astros’ database exposed the industry’s vulnerability to corporate espionage. The stakes have never been higher.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

A study released by the Government Accountability Office earlier this year showed that the State Department has deployed two-factor authentication to only 11% of the devices used by staff. Two-factor authentication is a legal requirement and also considered a bare minimum protocol for cybersecurity protection.

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Elie

DECEMBER 20, 2018

This post looks at two-factor authentication adoption in the wild, highlights the disparity of support between the various categories of websites, and illuminates how fragmented the two factor ecosystem is in terms of standard adoption. 2015 old version of Alexa top 1000 sites. How prevalent is 2FA authentication? Methodology.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 1, 2022

The research also found that among those, over 230 of them belonged to newly started companies that were found leaking authentication related credentials, allowing a complete takeover of twitter accounts. Now, the employee is no more linked to the social media giant and will face the trial for indulging in fraudulent practices in 2015.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Twitter announced that its users can protect their accounts with 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) even if they don’t have a phone number. Twitter is going to allow its users to protect their accounts with 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) even if they don’t have a phone number. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

in 2015, it became part of a suite of cloud-based collaboration tools. Two unique features that LastPass offers are support for multi-factor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO). With MFA, your IT administrators can configure an extra layer of authentication that combines biometric technology with contextual intelligence.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 1, 2023

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. The post Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 5, 2022

One day, while browsing YouTube, we came across a Black Hat 2015 presentation by Tal Be’ery and Michael Cherny. In their talk and subsequent brief, Watching the Watchdog: Protecting Kerberos Authentication with Network Monitoring, Be’ery and Cherny outlined something we had never heard of.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 21, 2021

Where We Started: Duo Access Gateway, 2015 In 2015 we introduced the Duo Access Gateway (DAG), which used SAML 2.0 to authenticate users into Office 365 (now Microsoft 365). Next, we added support for legacy authentication protocols (Basic Authentication). Duo SSO is just getting started. Want to follow along?

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 28, 2020

Sendgrid’s parent company Twilio says it is working on a plan to require multi-factor authentication for all of its customers, but that solution may not come fast enough for organizations having trouble dealing with the fallout in the meantime. Image: Wikipedia. ”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Zoom has implemented two-factor authentication (2FA) to protect all user accounts against security breaches and other cyber attacks. Zoom has announced finally implemented the two-factor authentication (2FA) to protect all user accounts from unauthorized accesses. ” reads the announcement published by Zoom. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2020

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers observed both the Mirai and Hoaxcalls botnets using an exploit for a post-authentication Remote Code Execution vulnerability in legacy Symantec Web Gateways 5.0.2.8. which is a product that became end-of-life (EOL) in 2015 and end-of-support-life (EOSL) in 2019.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

US CISA added actively exploited flaws in Fortra MFT, Intel driver, and TerraMaster NAS, respectively tracked as CVE-2023-0669 , CVE-2015-2291 , and CVE-2022-24990 , to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The CVE-2015-2291 flaw (CVSS v3 score 7.8) sys and IQVW64.sys.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

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. One of Megatraffer’s ads on an English-language cybercrime forum. Fitis’s Himba affiliate program, circa February 2014.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2020

HPE fixed a remote authentication bypass vulnerability in HPE StoreServ Management Console (SSMC) data center storage management solution. The CVE-2020-7197 flaw is a remote authentication bypass vulnerability that affects HPE 3PAR StoreServ Management and Core Software Media prior to 3.7.0.0. ” reads the advisory. .

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

“An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) when an authenticated attacker sends a specially crafted authentication request. “The security update addresses the vulnerability by changing the way that LSASS handles specially crafted authentication requests.”

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 13, 2022

Specifically, the NGINX LDAP reference implementation which uses LDAP to authenticate users of applications being proxied by NGINX. LDAP can also tackle authentication, so users can sign on just once and access many different files on the server. The reference implementation was announced in June 2015. Image courtesy of NGINX.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2020

One of the most security issues is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-3382. The vulnerability can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to bypass authentication and perform actions with admin privileges on the vulnerable device. ” reads the advisory published by Cisco.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

” The US agency also added the CVE-2015-2051 remote code execution flaw impacting D-Link DIR-645 routers. “An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.An attacker must have the ability to execute code on a victim system to exploit this vulnerability.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

In a statement published today, the IRS said it was transitioning away from using a third-party service for facial recognition to help authenticate people creating new online accounts. “During the transition, the IRS will quickly develop and bring online an additional authentication process that does not involve facial recognition. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The Netlogon service is an Authentication Mechanism used in the Windows Client Authentication Architecture which verifies logon requests, and it registers, authenticates, and locates Domain Controllers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2019

Since December 2015, Alpine Linux Docker images have been shipped with hardcoded credentials, a NULL password for the root user. This vulnerability appears to be the result of a regression introduced in December 2015.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” continues Talos. $

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

An attacker with this key can successfully authenticate as this user to the FortiSIEM Supervisor.” While the user’s shell is limited to running the /opt/phoenix/ phscripts /bin/ tunnelshell script, SSH authentication still succeeds.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2020

Cyble has analyzed the data and confirmed its authenticity, it also indexed the record in its data breach monitoring and notification service AmiBreached.com. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2020

The expert discovered that the issue could allow an attacker to force the software to relay an NTLM authentication request to the attacker’s system. This means that the SMB authentication process will leak the system’s username, and NTLMv2 hashed version of the password to the attackers. “An Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The Netlogon service is an Authentication Mechanism used in the Windows Client Authentication Architecture which verifies logon requests, and it registers, authenticates, and locates Domain Controllers. “An Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Vendors supporting Samba 4.7

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2020

It could be exploited by a remote, authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installs. An attempted attack requires user authentication.” The vulnerability could be exploited by an authenticated attacker to “manipulate certain agent client components.”. An attempted attack requires user authentication.”

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