Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

“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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Telecommunications Authentication Passwords Accountability 100

Malwarebytes

AUGUST 23, 2021

The vulnerability allows a remote user to bypass the authentication process. The vulnerability allows an authenticated user to execute arbitrary code in the context of SYSTEM and write arbitrary files. The targeted computer is forced to initiate an authentication procedure and share its authentication details via NTLM.

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Authentication Ransomware Encryption System Administration 107

Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Supporting OIDC allows us to protect more of the applications that our customers are adopting as we all move towards a mobile-first world and integrate stronger and modern authentication methods (e.g. protocol adding Authentication to what has historically been used for Authorization purposes. biometrics). What is OIDC?

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B2C B2B Authentication System Administration 105

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this type of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, the malicious traffic generated with the technique is greater than the once associated with the use of memcached, a service that does not require authentication but has been exposed on the internet by inexperienced system administrators. Brasília time, 1:00 p.m.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. This can be carried out directly or using a shadow payload or using a phishing attack aimed at compromising the user's system. The concept of PIM, in contrast to PAM, is aimed at managing existing accounts: administrator, root, etc. Authentication without PAM.

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Accountability Passwords Authentication Information Security 133

Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

The threat actors leverage perfectly orchestrated social engineering technique by “persuading” people holding significant corporate positions to open a non-malicious PDF email attachment coming from an authentic address in their contacts. The page resembles an authentic Microsoft Office 365 file sharing page.

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Phishing Accountability Financial Services Cloud Migration 137

Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The project touches many aspects of Duo, but focuses on drastically improving Duo’s web-based authentication interface. A consistent request we’ve heard from customers is, ‘we want more flexibility around customizing the authentication prompt. The interface, or prompt, is a core component in delivering our secure access solution.

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Authentication System Administration Mobile Phishing 75

Duo's Security Blog

MAY 11, 2022

For example, users can access their email only from devices that have the latest version of Operating System and security patches installed, and host firewall is enabled. Duo’s Device Health application also collects unique device identifiers (UUIDs) to verify whether that the device is enrolled in the enterprise management system.

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Firewall VPN System Administration Encryption 85

Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2022

The experts pointed out that it also allows authenticated user-mode processes to interact with the rootkit to control it. Linux rootkits are malware installed as kernel modules in the operating system. Experts highlighted that the kernel rootkit is hard to detect, it enables hiding processes, files, and even the kernel module.

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Malware System Administration Antivirus Architecture 100

Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

We also recognize that defenders and system administrators operate with a lot of constraints and aren’t always able to configure their environment to their ideal security posture. WebAuthn authentication methods are the gold standard for protecting against MFA fatigue attacks, and Duo offers several.

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Authentication Social Engineering Risk Accountability 86

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The key requirements for any IoT security solution are: Device and data security, including authentication of devices and confidentiality and integrity of data. Strong IoT device authentication is required to ensure connected devices on the IoT can be trusted to be what they purport to be. Meeting compliance requirements. UTM Medium.

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Manufacturing IoT Authentication Artificial Intelligence 98

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 23, 2018

To ensure a secure multi-tenant environment for consolidation, you need a solution that: adequately isolates security for specific tenants or customers; authorizes access to the data itself without allowing even systems administrators or privileged users to see the data; and. achieves performance without compromising security.

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Cloud Migration System Administration Architecture Firewall 81

Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Duo supports the only widely available phishing-resistant FIDO/WebAuthn authentication through Duo Passwordless, encompassing roaming physical token authenticators and platform authenticators embedded into laptops and smartphones. In Duo, see how to easily generate a Denied Authentications report through the Duo Admin Panel.

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Phishing Authentication Social Engineering Passwords 64

Security Boulevard

AUGUST 5, 2022

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.

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Encryption Authentication System Administration Firewall 57

CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Modern organizations rely heavily on software and systems. Secure coding standards are significant, as they give some assurance that software installed on the organization’s system is protected from security flaws. Authentication and password management.

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Authentication Passwords Software Accountability 79

Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Zero trust is built on the principle that no person or device inside or outside of an organization's network should be granted access to connect to systems until authenticated and continuously verified. Learn more by checking out these resources: Blog: How Your Organization Can Prevent Account Takeover.

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Social Engineering Education Technology Engineering 74

LRQA Nettitude Labs

MAY 3, 2023

GitHub: [link] Microsoft ETW (Event Tracing for Windows) is a logging mechanism integrated into the Windows operating system that enables the generation of diagnostic and tracing messages by applications. The immediate next step was to dump the entire byte array to see what it contained.

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Authentication System Administration Technology 52

NopSec

AUGUST 13, 2013

This week we come back with our blog series on SANS 20 Critical Controls and focus on Audit Logs and Controlled Access. Audit Logs for firewall, network devices, servers and hosts are most of the time the only way to determine whether or not the host has been compromised and the only way to control the activity of the system administrator.

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Firewall System Administration Encryption Authentication 40

SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Last June, Google’s TAG team released a blog post documenting attacks on Italian and Kazakh users that they attribute to RCS Lab, an Italian offensive software vendor. Okta is a widely used authentication services provider, and it is safe to assume that a hacker controlling their network would be able to infect any of their customers.

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Firmware Surveillance Mobile Telecommunications 127

Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In most organization system administrators can disable or change most or all SSH configurations; these settings and configurations can significantly increase or reduce SSH security risks. There are also security risks connected with “host keys,” which are the other authentication method used to identify the Secure Shell server.

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Risk Authentication Passwords Accountability 61

Duo's Security Blog

MAY 6, 2022

Reviews go through a strict validation and moderation process in an effort to ensure they are authentic. We love that xx check in on us regularly and have answers for every question or get back to us within minutes.” – Systems Administrator , Provider Industry “Duo has been exceptionally easy to implement and deploy.

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Marketing System Administration Media Authentication 52

NopSec

MARCH 16, 2020

I include a sampla here: Vulnerabilities affecting VPN and NG firewalls such as Cisco and Palo Alto Networks, much like the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect SSL VPN Critical Pre-authentication vulnerability – CVE-2019-1579. The disclosure blog post can be found here.

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VPN Accountability Risk System Administration 40

Security Boulevard

JUNE 20, 2022

This blog post provides a high-level explanation of how to implement security boundaries in an on-prem AD and Azure environment to protect your critical assets based on the principle of tiered administration, including how BloodHound Enterprise can help you in the process. Teal has a blog post on PAW available here.

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Accountability Risk Authentication System Administration 52

Centraleyes

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Verizons Data Breach Investigations Report showed that 74% of security breaches involve a human element, with system administrators and developers accounting for most of these errors. In a recent survey, 93% of respondents admitted to knowingly increasing their companys cybersecurity risks.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. His 1994 book detailing cryptographic algorithms ( Applied Cryptography ) was just the beginning of his contributions to technical perspectives on system design, cybersecurity, privacy, and more. Dave Kennedy | @hackingdave.

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Accountability Cybersecurity Penetration Testing InfoSec 139

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2020

Keeler Keeler outlined how implementing three tried-and-true technologies — Single Sign-On (SSO,) multi-factor authentication (MFA) and virtual private networking (VPN) — can go a long way to locking down school networks. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.). Acohido Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist Byron V.

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Mobile Passwords Technology Identity Theft 212

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

TL;DR: SCCM sites configured to support high availability can be abused to compromise the entire hierarchy I previously wrote about how targeting site systems hosting the SMS Provider role can be used to compromise a SCCM hierarchy. The following (Figure 11) is a demonstration of that attack path.

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Authentication Accountability System Administration Software 61

Malwarebytes

AUGUST 18, 2021

The major new security features that would debut in macOS 11 were: Pointer Authentication Codes (PAC) , hardware-enforced Call Flow Integrity (CFI), implemented by Apple’s homegrown 64 bit ARM processor, the M1. Currently limited to system code and kernel extensions, but open to all third-party developers for experimentation.

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Firmware Architecture Risk Engineering 145