Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Sorry, It’s Windows Malware Malware Mobile Indian Cyber Heist: FatBoyPanel And His Massive Data Breach Google Tag Manager Skimmer Steals Credit Card Info From Magento Site From South America to Southeast Asia: The Fragile Web of REF7707 Deep Learning-Driven Malware Classification with API Call Sequence Analysis and Concept Drift Handling Hacking (..)

Spyware

IT Security Guru

APRIL 30, 2025

What happens when two titans of cybersecurity ( Rebecca Taylor, Threat Intelligence Knowledge Manager and Researcher at Secureworks, a Sophos company, and Amelia Hewitt, Founder of CybAid and Managing Director at Hewitt Partnerships) join forces to write a book? Where did the idea come from for the book? How did it come about?

Cybersecurity

Webroot

JUNE 17, 2025

As soon as you start booking your trip, the cybercriminals start circling. Fake travel websites and rental listings : When you find a killer price on a luxury cruise, a European tour or an oceanfront Airbnb, take another look before you book! Adding an extra layer of security to your accounts can prevent unauthorized access.

VPN

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 25, 2025

You don’t need to share your phone number, email, or address book. The security tools below support your secure messaging app by protecting the rest: Keeper : Stores unique passwords and adds two-factor authentication to keep your messaging accounts locked down. Olvid Olvid is a secure messaging app that’s all about one-on-one trust.

Encryption

SecureWorld News

MAY 29, 2025

Implement Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): Ensure that MFA is enabled across all accounts to add an additional layer of security. Authentication of the identities of the people we communicate with has now become an absolute imperative." AI-driven attacks impersonating senior U.S.

Scams

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 25, 2025

You don’t need to share your phone number, email, or address book. The security tools below support your secure messaging app by protecting the rest: Keeper : Stores unique passwords and adds two-factor authentication to keep your messaging accounts locked down. Olvid Olvid is a secure messaging app that’s all about one-on-one trust.

Encryption

Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

Google plans to add end-to-end encryption to Authenticator is a bit of a jaw-dropper. Image by Midjourney: an AI reading a book, while being hacked cinematic, dramatic, professional photography, studio lighting, studio background, advertising photography, intricate details, hyper-detailed, ultra realistic, 8K UHD --ar 8:3 --v 5

Passwords

Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

In fact, a great many of the problems that threat modeling helps us find, such as authentication or business logic flaws will get more important and visible as memory safety vulns decline, for whatever reason. Disclaimer: Microsofts investments in security included my salary for a decade, and letting me publish a book on threat modeling.

Social Engineering

Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

which I've now included in this book 😊 These are the stories behind the stories and finally, the book about it all is here: I announced the book back in April last year after Rob, Charlotte and I had already invested a heap of effort before releasing a preview in October. This book has it all. Pat Phelan.

InfoSec

Zero Day

JUNE 29, 2025

How to protect yourself Why SMS two-factor authentication codes aren't safe and what to use instead Meta's new $399 Oakley smart glasses beat the Ray-Bans in almost every way I told ChatGPT more about myself - here's how the AI used that personal info Were 16 billion passwords from Apple, Google, and Facebook leaked?

Password Management

Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2018

It is also using contact information you handed over for security purposes and contact information you didn't hand over at all, but that was collected from other people's contact books, a hidden layer of details Facebook has about you that I've come to call "shadow contact information." Here's the research paper.

Advertising

Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

I am pleased to announce the publication of my latest book: Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World. As automation, autonomy, and physical agency become more prevalent, the trade-offs we made for things like authentication, patching, and supply chain security no longer make any sense.

Government

The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

I currently have over 450 accounts that use passwords combined with a variety of two-factor authentication methods. Related: How the Fido Alliance enables password-less authentication. Only a dozen or so of my accounts get authenticated via self-hosted services. the address book web app). Sharing protocols.

Authentication

Schneier on Security

JANUARY 5, 2018

My next book is still on track for a September 2018 publication. Authentication and Identification are Getting Harder 6. It also needs to telegraph: "everyone needs to read this book." In the book I need a word for the Internet plus the things connected to it plus all the data and processing in the cloud.

Internet

Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

register there and you'll be notified as soon as part of it are available) Sponsored by: 1Password is a secure password manager and digital wallet that keeps you safe online.

Password Management

Troy Hunt

APRIL 14, 2024

However, per that story: Cybernews couldn’t confirm the authenticity of the data. I couldn't confirm the authenticity of the data either and I wrote a short thread about it during the week: I'm not convinced this data is from Accor. Book a demo today. It's Device Trust tailor-made for Okta.

Authentication

Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2021

The researchers noticed that the “Send to Kindle” feature allows Kindle users to send e-books to their devices as email attachments, a behavior that could be potentially exploited for malicious purposes, for example sending a malicious e-book to potential victims. To my pleasant surprise, the e-book appeared on the device!

Hacking

Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The activity significantly disrupted IHG's booking channels and other applications. Booking system. The unavailability of the online booking system must be a major pain for IHG. directly to make, amend or cancel a booking. In addition, experts from outside of IHG are being brought in to help with the investigation.

Ransomware

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Security researchers from WizCase have discovered several vulnerabilities in WD My Book, NetGear Stora, SeaGate Home, Medion LifeCloud NAS. Meaning, authentication bypasses weren’t enough. WD My Book, NetGear Stora. WizCase Report: Vulnerabilities found on WD My Book, NetGear Stora, SeaGate Home, Medion LifeCloud NAS.

Firmware

The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 13, 2021

There are additional safety measures you can (and should) take to teach your child as they grow, things like installing virus protection, enabling multi-factor authentication, using password managers, and raising awareness about phishing scams. Make sure you are being thoughtful and responsible in your actions. Make it a family conversation.

Scams

The Hacker News

JULY 26, 2021

There is a saying that goes something like, "Do not judge a book by its cover." Yet, we all know we can not help but do just that - especially when it comes to online security. Logos play a significant role in whether or not we open an email and how we assess the importance of each message.

Authentication

Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Microsoft has posted a reminder on the Exchange Team blog that Basic authentication for Exchange Online will be disabled in less than a month, on October 1, 2022. For many years, client apps have used Basic authentication to connect to servers, services and endpoints. The first announcement of the change stems from September 20, 2019.

Authentication

Schneier on Security

MARCH 25, 2022

I know him best for his work on authentication and covert channels, specifically as related to nuclear treaty verification. Gus Simmons is an early pioneer in cryptography and computer security. His work is cited extensively in Applied Cryptography. He has written a memoir of growing up dirt-poor in 1930s rural West Virginia.

Authentication

Daniel Miessler

AUGUST 19, 2020

This can still work with some people, if it’s authentic. Is there a specific book that you’d recommend to yourself 20 years ago? If they have a book in mind, they might just respond and give you the title. BETTER : Hello, I’ve always admired how you built your career over time. This is golden.

Authentication

Daniel Miessler

MAY 14, 2020

Enable two-factor authentication on all critical accounts. For your most important accounts—such as those controlling your email account, your bank, and your mobile phone account—you should enable two-factor authentication. That means your computers, laptops, phones, gaming systems, smart home appliances, etc. Everything.

Risk

Krebs on Security

JULY 31, 2024

More than a million domain names — including many registered by Fortune 100 firms and brand protection companies — are vulnerable to takeover by cybercriminals thanks to authentication weaknesses at a number of large web hosting providers and domain registrars, new research finds. Image: Shutterstock.

DNS

The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 31, 2022

Multi-factor authentication, or MFA, methods belong to this category. Some big corporations use artificial intelligence systems, or AIS, to identify characteristics that can be used as passwords in authentication procedures. The authentication procedure is hidden from users. Such systems do not require any effort from users.

Passwords

Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

Just what the title says If you needed more reasons to move away from using SMS-based authentication, and treating phone companies as trusted, " AT&T employees took over $1 million in bribes to plant malware and unlock millions of smartphones: DOJ ". How Flat Earthers Nearly Derailed a Space Photo Book ".

Media

Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2019

site that helps him manage more than 500 scam properties and interactions with up to 100 (soon-to-be-scammed) “guests” looking to book the fake listings. Airbnb could help by adding some type of robust multi-factor authentication, such as Security Keys — which would defeat these Airbnb phishing pages.

Scams

Veracode Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

s start by looking at applications designed around symmetric cryptography, starting with Message Authentication Code in this post. In a lot of applications (think of any kind of secure communication), receiving parties need to be assured of the origin of the message (authenticity) and make sure the message is received untampered (integrity).

Authentication

Security Boulevard

JUNE 9, 2021

1998 was the same year that researchers at AT&T Labs were issued a patent (filed in 1995) for what became known in our industry as Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). Steve and team were clearly on the right track when they dreamed up out-of-band authentication and deserve some credit and recognition for the foresight. East Coast.

Authentication

Security Boulevard

JUNE 22, 2023

We all authenticate ourselves multiple times in a day, whether online shopping, logging into our bank account or booking flights. And with authentication, we confirm our digital identities so often that it doesn’t seem like a security action; instead, it seems like a step in the process of gaining access to services/resources.

Authentication

Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Facebook Is an Open Book. Once the number has been transferred, the criminal has control of any accounts that are identified by caller ID (including many financial institutions) as well as any accounts protected by two-factor authentication. It is believed this was the method used to recently hack Jack Dempsey’s Twitter account. .

Scams

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 17, 2023

This, of course, is the plot of endless dystopian books and movies that end with rogue machines in charge. They come with a “secure element” which embeds encryption keys and authentication certificates at the chip level. “We Infineon’s power module and microcontroller chipsets provide a case in point.

IoT

The Last Watchdog

MAY 14, 2019

Take authentication, for example. Threat actors are taking great advantage of the lag in upgrading authentication. Tel Aviv-based security vendor Silverfort is playing in this space, and has found good success pioneering a new approach for securing authentication in the perimeterless world. That’s where adaptive MFA comes in.

Authentication

CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2022

These include a new Dark Web Insights tool that provides a breakdown of compromised passwords, a standalone authenticator app for enabling account multi-factor authentication (MFA), and a low-cost starter plan for small businesses. Breached employee credentials on dark web pose significant threat to businesses.

Authentication

Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Recently, attackers have targeted multi-factor authentication (MFA). Even if an attacker has access to a username and password, they still need access to the second authentication factor to break into the organization. This becomes a constant cycle of organizations introducing new protections and attackers finding ways to exploit them.

Authentication