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Announcing Duo’s Vision to Streamline Authentication & Enhance User Experience

Duo's Security Blog

Some of it is positive, but the general consensus is that people don’t love multi-factor authentication (MFA); they see it as a necessary evil at best. During the workday, on the other hand, I spend a lot of time talking to systems administrators, security operations analysts, and IT professionals who do love MFA.

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Understanding Brute Force Attacks: The Persistent Threat in Cybersecurity

Webroot

A brute force attack is a cyber attack where the attacker attempts to gain unauthorized access to a system or data by systematically trying every possible combination of passwords or keys. There are many already leaked password lists that are commonly used, and they grow after every breach. What is a Brute Force Attack?

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What Duo Unix Administrators Need to Know About Pluggable Authentication Modules

Duo's Security Blog

One common hurdle for systems administrators setting up new Duo Unix integrations is PAM — Pluggable Authentication Modules. We hope that the guidance below, combined with our extensive documentation , will help those setting up new integrations get their systems configured quickly and easily. What is PAM? Other Flags.

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China-linked threat actors have breached telcos and network service providers

Security Affairs

“Upon gaining an initial foothold into a telecommunications organization or network service provider, PRC state-sponsored cyber actors have identified critical users and infrastructure including systems critical to maintaining the security of authentication, authorization, and accounting. To nominate, please visit:?.

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Kaseya Left Customer Portal Vulnerable to 2015 Flaw in its Own Software

Krebs on Security

The attackers exploited a vulnerability in software from Kaseya , a Miami-based company whose products help system administrators manage large networks remotely. “This is worse because the CVE calls for an authenticated user,” Holden said. “This was not.”

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Complicated Active Directory setups are undermining security

Malwarebytes

Many of them also use Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for their authentication needs. For example, PKI is used for certificate based authentication, securing web servers (SSL) , and in digital signatures for documents. Countless organizations around the world use Windows Server as the base for their IT infrastructure. Mitigation.

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How Secure Shell (SSH) Keys Work

Security Boulevard

SSH authenticates the parties involved and allows them to exchange commands and output via multiple data manipulation techniques. Once the parties have played an equal role in generating the shared secret key, they must authenticate themselves. The most common means of authentication is via SSH asymmetric key pairs. 17965 views.