The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2018

The use of an additional form of authentication to protect the accessing of a sensitive digital system has come a long way over the past decade and a half. An Israeli start-up, Silverfort , is seeking to make a great leap forward in the state-of-the-art of authentication systems. LW: Let’s come back to ‘adaptive authentication.’

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Passwords are the most common authentication tool used by enterprises, yet they are notoriously insecure and easily hackable. At this point, multi-factor authentication (MFA) has permeated most applications, becoming a minimum safeguard against attacks. Jump to: What is multi-factor authentication? MFA can be hacked.

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NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Don’t be afraid of social engineering attacks this Cybersecurity Awareness Month! In the spirit of this year’s theme, we created a parody of the Monster Mash to share social engineering prevention tips far and wide. Turn on Multifactor Authentication Even strong, secure passwords can be exposed by attackers.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This weakness technically requires the attacker to be authenticated to the target’s local network, but Breen notes that a pair of phished Exchange credentials will provide that access nicely.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Related: The Internet of Things is just getting started The technology to get rid of passwords is readily available; advances in hardware token and biometric authenticators continue apace. Using social engineering, the scammer tells a story about losing a phone and needing help activating a new one.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

From the start, two-factor authentication, or 2FA , established itself as a simple, effective way to verify identities with more certainty. Related: A primer on IoT security risks The big hitch with 2FA, and what it evolved into – multi-factor authentication, or MFA – has always been balancing user convenience and security.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) expands upon a basic Network Access Control (NAC) concept to include modules for network device control and integrated security options. With backing from the most dominant brand in network infrastructure, many larger organizations will need to seriously consider ISE as a NAC solution.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

The new attack is able to bypass facial recognition services, applications, and APIs including the most advanced online facial recognition search engine on the planet, called PimEyes, according to the Washington Post. Attackers can poison or evade the algorithms of big Internet companies by manipulating their profile pictures.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 9, 2020

Earlier this year, the FBI released the 2019 Internet Crime Report. It includes information from 467,361 complaints of suspected Internet crime with reported losses in excess of $3.5 Source: FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report. BEC is the costliest crime for businesses. Overall, 23,775 BEC victims accounted for $1.77

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

A visualization of the Internet made using network routing data. Imagine being able to disconnect or redirect Internet traffic destined for some of the world’s biggest companies — just by spoofing an email. Image: Barrett Lyon, opte.org. Based in Monroe, La., Lumen Technologies Inc.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 24, 2023

The attacks can be executed remotely without authentication because MLflow doesn't implement authentication by default and an increasing number of MLflow deployments are directly exposed to the internet. It's pretty brutal." To read this article in full, please click here

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 21, 2020

” The perpetrators focus on social engineering new hires at the targeted company, and impersonate staff at the target company’s IT helpdesk. Consider using a formalized authentication process for employee-to-employee communications made over the public telephone network where a second factor is used to.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Top of the heap on this Fat Patch Tuesday is CVE-2024-21412 , a “security feature bypass” in the way Windows handles Internet Shortcut Files that Microsoft says is being targeted in active exploits. Microsoft Corp. It’s also smart to back up your data and/or image your Windows drive before applying new updates.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 13, 2023

Breen said this month’s Exchange bugs ( CVE-2023-32031 and CVE-2023-28310 ) closely mirror the vulnerabilities identified as part of ProxyNotShell exploits , where an authenticated user in the network could exploit a vulnerability in the Exchange to gain code execution on the server.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

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. But we do know the March 2020 attack was precipitated by a spear-phishing attack against a GoDaddy employee.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

In 2019, a cybersecurity firm demonstrated security risks that could allow an attacker to disrupt engine readings and altitude on an aircraft. Hilderman Many components and systems within an aircraft can exchange data and communicate with each other or with the external internet. There was another warning from the U.S.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Safer Internet Day is a reminder for organizations to train and regularly refresh employee awareness around cybersecurity. With regular headlines of the latest cyber-attack occurring, organizations must focus on cybersecurity and using the internet safely. So why is it vital to train employees on cybersecurity and internet risks?

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The Security Ledger

JULY 10, 2018

If we are destined to interact with the smart systems around us using our voice, how exactly will we manage to authenticate to those devices? If we are destined to interact with the smart systems around us using our voice, how exactly will we manage to authenticate to those devices? Authenticate me! Read the whole entry. »

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Krebs on Security

MAY 14, 2024

“CVE-2024-30051 is used to gain initial access into a target environment and requires the use of social engineering tactics via email, social media or instant messaging to convince a target to open a specially crafted document file,” Narang said.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The victim shaming site operated by the Snatch ransomware group is leaking data about its true online location and internal operations, as well as the Internet addresses of its visitors, KrebsOnSecurity has found. Probably the most active Internet address accessing Snatch’s darknet site is 193.108.114[.]41 top , sntech2ch[.]top

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SC Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Today’s columnist, Brian Johnson of Armorblox, offers five takeaways from the FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report. The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in March released its 2020 Internet Crime Report with updated statistics on Business Email Compromise (BEC), Email Account Compromise (EAC), and COVID-19 scams.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 9, 2019

For decades, the cornerstone of IT security has been Public Key Infrastructure, or PKI , a system that allows you to encrypt and sign data, issuing digital certificates that authenticate the identity of users. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 9, 2024

Most of the flaws that Microsoft deems “more likely to be exploited” this month are marked as “important,” which usually involve bugs that require a bit more user interaction (social engineering) but which nevertheless can result in system security bypass, compromise, and the theft of critical assets.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Over the last few years, the official labs team was disbanded, moving on to new projects, teams, and gigs — and the Duo Labs site was left to face the digital sands of internet time without much attention or thought. Folks thinking about the future of authentication, from passkeys to decentralized identity.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

éveillé from ESET joins The Hacker Mind podcast to talk about the challenges of building his own internet scanner to scan for elusive malware. What if you were dialed the entire Internet? But to find that information back in 2014, he had to scan the Internet, the entire internet and that was a very noisy process.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Natalie Silva , lead security engineer at Immersive Labs , said this flaw’s impact to enterprise customers could be significant, and lead to prolonged downtime. The latter vulnerability could expose NTLM hashes , which are used for authentication in Windows environments.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The researchers explained that the template engine utilizes the vm2 library to prevent the execution of untrusted code. “In reviewing how to confine this risk, we noticed that the templating engine could be manipulated to run shell commands by using user-controlled templates with Nunjucks outside of an isolated environment. .”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 29, 2020

leaked internal customer support data to the Internet, mobile provider Sprint has addressed a mix-up in which posts to a private customer support community were exposed to the Web. A redacted screen shot of one Sprint customer support thread exposed to the Web.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2023

government agency in charge of improving the nation’s cybersecurity posture is ordering all federal agencies to take new measures to restrict access to Internet-exposed networking equipment. “This is reachable pre-authentication, on every SSL VPN appliance,” French vulnerability researcher Charles Fol tweeted.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2023

Multi-factor authentication ( MFA ) has raised the bar, but MFA alone is not enough to slow, much less stop, moderately-skilled bad actors. I spoke with Token CEO John Gunn and his engineering VP Evan K. about the role of advanced wearable authentication devices, going forward. Two impromptu meetings I had touched on this.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2022

The vulnerabilities of internet security, once mostly a nuisance, have become dangerous and costly. Seeing the flaws continue year after year, the industry began linking authentication of valid software components to the underlying hardware, or the “root of trust”. . • The FBI reports that 3,000-4,000 cyberattacks are counted each day.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials. The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. Twilio disclosed in Aug.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

NiceHash founder Matjaz Skorjanc said the unauthorized changes were made from an Internet address at GoDaddy, and that the attackers tried to use their access to its incoming NiceHash emails to perform password resets on various third-party services, including Slack and Github. GoDaddy said the outage between 7:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 28, 2023

Password Security: Investigate different password security techniques, such as password hashing algorithms, two-factor authentication (2FA), and biometric authentication. Social Engineering: Investigate the human element of cybersecurity by exploring social engineering techniques and tactics used to manipulate individuals.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 10, 2022

“This allows attackers to perform a man-in-the-middle attack to force domain controllers to authenticate to the attacker using NTLM authentication,” Wiseman said. Greg Wiseman , product manager for Rapid7 , said Microsoft has rated this vulnerability as important and assigned it a CVSS (danger) score of 8.1 (10

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

As an enterprise security team, you could restrict internet access at your egress points, but this doesn’t do much when the workforce is remote. Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) to access your applications and services, especially for admin access to platforms and backend systems.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 14, 2019

One of the catch phrases I overheard at RSA 2019 that jumped out at me was this: “The internet is the new corporate network.” Take authentication, for example. Threat actors are taking great advantage of the lag in upgrading authentication. After the authentication requests are processed by the directory (e.g.

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