CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 10, 2023

According to the Insurance Information Institute , there was a 45-percent increase in identity theft in 2020, and the rapid digital transformation that took place during 2020 would not have helped improve this figure. Authentication also reduces the overall likelihood of compromising information.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 14, 2020

As first reported Monday by KrebsOnSecurity, Microsoft addressed a severe bug ( CVE-2020-0601 ) in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016/19 reported by the NSA that allows an attacker to spoof the digital signature tied to a specific piece of software. “Imagine if I wanted to pick the lock in your front door,” Green analogized.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 26, 2020

Doing authentication well is vital for any company in the throes of digital transformation. Related: Locking down ‘machine identities’ At the moment, companies are being confronted with a two-pronged friction challenge, when it comes to authentication. We spoke at RSA 2020. And that’s not an easy task.

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Heimadal Security

AUGUST 13, 2021

The announcement is not new as in July 2020 GitHub declared that all authenticated Git operations will necessitate the use of a private access token, OAuth token, or SSH key. The post GitHub Expresses Disapproval of Account Password Authentication for Git Operations appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. As they […].

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2020

Cybersecurity firm Volexity is warning that nation-state actors are attempting to exploit a vulnerability recently addressed in Microsoft Exchange email servers tracked as CVE-2020-0688. That was quick, since 2 hours ago seeing likely mass scanning for CVE-2020-0688 (Microsoft Exchange 2007+ RCE vulnerability).

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Google Security

MARCH 17, 2021

We also announced that we would reward the top 6 submissions in 2020 and increased the total prize money to $313,337. 2020 turned out to be an amazing year for the Google Vulnerability Reward Program. The bug discovered by Ezequiel allowed him to make requests to internal Google services, authenticated as a privileged service account.

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SecureList

MARCH 31, 2021

2020 was challenging for everyone: companies, regulators, individuals. As a result, 2020 was extremely eventful in terms of digital threats, in particular those faced by financial institutions. In 2020, the group tried its hand at the big extortion game with the VHD ransomware family. Key findings. to 13.21%.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Microsoft released an out-of-band update for Windows to address authentication flaws related to a recently patched Kerberos vulnerability. Microsoft released an out-of-band update to address authentication issues in Windows related to a recently patched Kerberos vulnerability tracked as CVE-2020-17049. “An Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 25, 2021

The Global Year in Breach 2020 has shined a light on a few things - like how multifactor authentication is a security superstar. The post Lessons Learned from the Global Year in Breach: Multifactor Authentication Beats Cybercrime appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2020

VMware has addressed a critical information disclosure flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-3952, that could be exploited by attackers to compromise vCenter Server or other services that use the Directory Service ( vmdir ) for authentication. The two security vulnerabilities have been tracked as CVE-2020-3950 and CVE-2020-3951 respectively.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 16, 2021

All these days we have seen companies providing online services offer multiple security methods for login authentication. However, all is going to change pretty soon as Twitter has made it official that it will only allow physical hardware keys authentication for logins in near future.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

More than 247,000 Microsoft Exchange servers are still vulnerable to attacks exploiting the CVE-2020-0688 RCE issue impacting Exchange Server. The CVE-2020-0688 vulnerability resides in the Exchange Control Panel (ECP) component, the root cause of the problem is that Exchange servers fail to properly create unique keys at install time.

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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 Affairs

MAY 20, 2020

VMware has addressed a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-3956, that affects its Cloud Director product. VMware has patched a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-3956, in its Cloud Director product. SecurityAffairs – CVE-2020-3956, hacking).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The Tripwire VERT security team spotted almost 800,000 SonicWall VPN appliances exposed online that are vulnerable to the CVE-2020-5135 RCE flaw. Security experts from the Tripwire VERT security team have discovered 795,357 SonicWall VPN appliances that were exposed online that are vulnerable to the CVE-2020-5135 RCE flaw.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

But we do know the March 2020 attack was precipitated by a spear-phishing attack against a GoDaddy employee. GoDaddy described the incident at the time in general terms as a social engineering attack, but one of its customers affected by that March 2020 breach actually spoke to one of the hackers involved.

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SecureList

AUGUST 23, 2021

billion USD in 2021, which is slightly less than the total revenue in 2020 but still significantly above the pre-pandemic figures. Most of the statistics presented in the report were collected between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021. Pandemic-related statistics cover the period of January 2020 through June 2021.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

NordPass, a password manager company, recently released its list of the worst passwords of 2020. The list also compares the worst passwords from 2019 to 2020 and shows what has increased or decreased in popularity. The list also compares the worst passwords from 2019 to 2020 and shows what has increased or decreased in popularity.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Oracle issued an out-of-band security update to address a critical remote code execution issue (CVE-2020-14750) impacting multiple Oracle WebLogic Server versions. The advisory states that this vulnerability is related to the CVE-2020-14882 flaw that was addressed in the October 2020 Critical Patch Update. . 12.2.1.4.0,

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2021

Passwordless authentication as a default parameter can’t arrive too soon. That’s the upshot of a new report, The State of Passwordless Security 2021 , put out by HYPR , a New York City-based supplier of advanced authentication systems. Related: Top execs call for facial recognition to be regulated. 1 use case is remote access.”.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 24, 2021

Fraud losses climbed to $56 billion in 2020 and identity fraud scams accounted for a staggering $43 billion of that cost, according to a new report. As consumers relied increasingly on digital payment products during 2020, identity fraud scams kept pace with this shift in behavior, the report reveals.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

Organizations are delaying in patching Microsoft Exchange Server flaw (CVE-2020-0688) that Microsoft fixed with February 2020 Patch Day updates. Organizations are delaying in patching Microsoft Exchange Server flaw ( CVE-2020-0688 ) that Microsoft fixed with February 2020 Patch Day updates. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2020

Early June, researchers at F5 Networks have addressed a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-5902, that resides in undisclosed pages of Traffic Management User Interface (TMUI) of the BIG-IP product. The CVE-2020-5902 vulnerability received a CVSS score of 10, this means that is quite easy to exploit.

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Heimadal Security

OCTOBER 28, 2021

As a response to the Twitter hack that happened last year, the American social networking service put in place the compulsoriness of the MFA (multi-factor authentication) use and also ensured the security keys roll out for all its employees.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2020

CISA is warning of the active exploitation of the unauthenticated remote code execution CVE-2020-5902 vulnerability affecting F5 Big-IP ADC devices. “This Alert also provides additional detection measures and mitigations for victim organizations to help recover from attacks resulting from CVE-2020-5902.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2020

This week Apple released security patches to address the CVE-2020-9859 zero-day vulnerability that had been used to jailbreak iPhones devices. Apple released security patches to address the CVE-2020-9859 zero-day vulnerability in the iOS kernel that had been used to jailbreak iPhones. — @Pwn20wnd (@Pwn20wnd) June 1, 2020.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

The so-called “mastermind” behind the 2020 Twitter hack that compromised the accounts of several celebrities and public figures—including President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk—pleaded guilty to several charges on Tuesday in a Florida court. He will also earn credit for the 229 days that he has already spent in jail.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Trick or Treat: The Choice is Yours with Multifactor Authentication. Whether you want the ‘trick’ of a malevolent threat actor infiltrating your network by exploiting a compromised password or the ‘treat’ from the peace of mind associated with multifactor authentication, the choice is yours. Fri, 10/29/2021 - 05:29.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

I joined Avast in April of 2020, at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. The post Authentic Brands Build On Fundamental Truths | Avast appeared first on Security Boulevard. Millions of people had to quickly adapt to a new reality where everything they normally did — like going to school, work or the doctor — was happening at home.

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SC Magazine

MAY 7, 2021

A sign is displayed at the Google outdoor booth during exhibitor setups for CES 2020 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Google announced that it will automatically enroll users in multifactor authentication – what they are calling two-step verification. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images).

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Bleeping Computer

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Twitter rolled out security keys to its entire workforce and made two-factor authentication (2FA) mandatory for accessing internal systems following last year's hack. [.].

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The US National Security Agency has published a security alert warning that Russian state-sponsored hackers are exploiting the recently patched CVE-2020-4006 VMware flaw to steal sensitive information from their targets. The post Russia-linked hackers actively exploit CVE-2020-4006 VMware flaw, NSA warns appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 28, 2020

January 28, 2020 marks the 13th iteration of Data Privacy Day. These controls should include the use of multi-factor authentication (MFA) to safeguard users’ accounts even in the event that threat actors succeed in compromising their credentials. Its aim is to foster dialogue around the importance of privacy.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2020

First, the identities of any two digital entities – a sensor and a control server, for instance, or even a microservice and a container — must be authenticated, and, second, the data exchanged between any two such digital instances must be encrypted. What we’re seeing is pretty basic things around authentication.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 22, 2021

Last month’s passage of the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020 means all IoT devices used by government agencies will soon have to comply with strict NIST standards. In May 2020, NIST released two foundational documents that serve as a foundation for the newly created guidelines. Authentication & identity management.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The time has come where we analyze authentication data and produce our wildly popular Duo Trusted Access Report. The 2020 Duo Trusted Access Report details the security state of thousands of the world’s largest and fastest-growing organizations. Tweet to us at @DuoSec Download the free 2020 Trusted Access Report today!

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Dark Reading

JUNE 12, 2023

Okta platform data-based study finds FastPass and WebAuthn offer far stronger security and faster, more reliable user experiences.

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