Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Resilient Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and Strong Passwords. Historically, October has always been an important month for the cybersecurity community and a month of major cybersecurity events. Resilient multi-factor authentication and strong passwords are critical. Tue, 10/04/2022 - 05:20.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Global October Cybersecurity Events: Where You Can Find Thales. The summer is now over, and October is a month full of cybersecurity events for Thales around the world. Below are just some of the events Thales will be at over the next few weeks. Les Assises turns 22 this year, and the event motto is "In 2022, We Speed Up!"

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

As technology has evolved, fingers (and palms and irises and faces) have increasingly been used as a means of biometric authentication. The one in storage matches the one provided at the time of authentication. All this compared to simply matching 2 strings as is done with password authentication. That is all.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Originating from the conference’s events situated at the Anaheim Marriott ; and via the organizations YouTube channel. Permalink The post USENIX Security ’23 – Yu Chen, Yang Yu, Lidong Zhai – InfinityGauntlet: Expose Smartphone Fingerprint Authentication to Brute-force Attack appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Overview of Authentication Mechanisms. In this regard, continuously authenticating users who are accessing corporate resources helps maintain trust in distributed IT environments. Let us examine some of the most prominent authentication mechanisms before we move on to the emerging continuous access evaluation protocol (CAEP) standard.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 26, 2024

Originating from the conference’s events situated at the Anaheim Marriott ; and via the organizations YouTube channel. Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access.

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2022

Therefore, strong authentication methods are needed. Therefore, strong authentication methods are needed to improve security without hindering user convenience. What is Strong Authentication? The IAM Security Boundary Strong authentication is a critical component of modern-day identity and access management.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 2, 2021

What is Modern Authentication and Its Role in Achieving Zero Trust Security? The evolving business and technology landscape and the need for secure, yet convenient, ways of logging into applications are driving the quest for more effective authentication. From static authentication…. to dynamic, context based authentication.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 15, 2022

According to the FBI’s bulletin, cyber actors were able to obtain access to primary credentials for users with Duo accounts that did not have an enrolled multi-factor authentication (MFA) device. This activity was documented as early as May, 2021. Follow this guide to change the New User Policy setting.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) 2022.4 SEM ships with hundreds of predefined correlation rules, including authentication, change management, network attacks, and more. SolarWinds SEM supports a variety of event sources, including nonevent data sources that can be integrated into its analytics and correlation rules.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2020

The two techniques reported in the NSA’s advisory are related to the possibility to forge Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) tokens used single sign-on (SSO) authentication processes. Using the private keys, the actors then forge trusted authentication tokens to access cloud resources.” ” continues the alert.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

To illustrate the point, we’ll focus on a particular type of event that generates logs: user authentications (aka “logins”). Identifying “different” authentications Searching through auth logs to identify a login that looks suspicious is one thing. There goes your break time. Can I get some context here please?

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 6, 2024

Originating from the conference’s events situated at the Anaheim Marriott ; and via the organizations YouTube channel. Permalink The post USENIX Security ’23 – “If I Could Do This, I Feel Anyone Could” *The Design And Evaluation Of A Secondary Authentication Factor Manager’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 4, 2024

Originating from the conference’s events situated at the Anaheim Marriott ; and via the organizations YouTube channel. Keromytis, Wenjing Lou – ‘UCBlocker: Unwanted Call Blocking Using Anonymous Authentication’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. Thomas Hou, Angelos D.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Originating from the conference’s events situated at the Anaheim Marriott ; and via the organizations YouTube channel. Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access.

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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. We reached out to Accor for clarification and are awaiting a response.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

Multi-factor authentication is one of the best ways to thwart bad actors using stolen credentials — but it’s not foolproof. The attacker is sending a user through a proxy and retrieving credentials and/or session tokens by manipulating the end user into thinking they are authenticating into a legitimate resource or application.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 15, 2022

On March 15, 2022, a US government flash bulletin was published describing how state-sponsored cyber actors were able to exploit certain authentication workflows in combination with PrintNightmare vulnerability (CVE-2021-34527) to gain administrative access to Windows domain controllers. What Do You Need to Do to Prevent Being Compromised?

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

That’s where multi-factor authentication (MFA) comes in. But what if an attacker can just send that authentication request to their own personal phone? Duo Trust Monitor: Duo Trust Monitor uses a combination of machine learning models and security heuristics to surface events that may be a risk or threat to your organization.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 24, 2023

Cisco is aware of reports that Akira ransomware threat actors have been targeting Cisco VPNs that are not configured for multi-factor authentication to infiltrate organizations, and we have observed instances where threat actors appear to be targeting organizations that do not configure multi-factor authentication for their VPN users.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Originating from the conference’s events situated at the Anaheim Marriott ; and via the organizations YouTube channel. Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 29, 2024

The attack methods included a mixture of passcode phishing and push harassment, with the intent to access university VPNs or register a malicious authentication device on one or more user accounts for continued access. Trust Monitor will also detect and surface risky device registration events.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Broken User Authentication : This type of vulnerability occurs in instances where authentication mechanisms do not function as intended because they weren’t implemented properly, noted OWASP. An overview of authentication and authorization. Authorization comes after authentication.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2024

In light of these events, we have been monitoring attempts to gain unauthorized access to VPNs of Check Point’s customers. By May 24, 2024 we identified a small number of login attempts using old VPN local-accounts relying on unrecommended password-only authentication method,” the company said.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 1, 2022

Join our founder Simon Moffatt along with Michael Rothschild VP of Product Marketing at HYPR on August 22nd, where they'll be taking a look at authentication within the global financial services industry. The post Authentication Within FSI: Now and Next appeared first on The Cyber Hut.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Large scale events, whether in sports or music, take a host of people to make sure things run smoothly. Bigger events that draw crowds of enthusiasts and supporters from across the globe can also, unfortunately, draw in some from the criminal element. However, making sure things go smoothly is not limited to the organizers.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 28, 2024

In the advisory , Check Point says the attackers are targeting security gateways with old local accounts using insecure password-only authentication, which should be used with certificate authentication to prevent breaches. "We Switching from weak authentication to stronger authentication has multiple benefits.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 13, 2022

I reviewed the techniques that Matt Nelson mentioned could be used to coerce authentication from the client push installation account and found that when the “Clear Install Flag” site maintenance task is enabled, SCCM will eventually initiate client push installation if you simply remove the client software from a system. Background.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 11, 2023

Okta this week made available Security Center, an extension of the Okta Customer Identity Cloud that provides a real-time view of authentication events, potential security incidents and threat response efficacy.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2023

The 4th Annual Multi-Cloud Conference and Workshop on ZTNA is an upcoming event for anyone interested in how the federal government is advancing standards in ZTNA. The event—May 24-25; in-person and virtual—is hosted by NIST and Tetrate. Encryption in transit provides eavesdropping protection and payload authenticity.

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Bleeping Computer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Authentication service provider and Okta subsidiary Auth0 has disclosed what it calls a "security event" involving some of its code repositories. [.].

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Credentials stolen by info-stealers often end up for sale on cybercrime shops that peddle purloined passwords and authentication cookies (these logs also often show up in the malware scanning service VirusTotal ).

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 30, 2022

I recently learned that you can coerce NTLM authentication from SCCM servers using any Windows SCCM client when automatic site-wide client push installation is enabled and NTLM has not been explicitly disabled. Next, we need to set up ntlmrelayx to capture and relay NTLM authentication received from our target computers.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 16, 2022

Risk-based authentication (RBA) is quickly growing in popularity amongst identity and access management solutions. The reason is simple: it allows for improved customer experience by reducing friction in authentication journeys while maintaining appropriate security levels. The classic outcomes of risk in authentication.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 21, 2021

The post DEF CON 29 Main Stage – Jenko Hwong’s ‘New Phishing Attacks Exploiting OAuth Authentication Flows’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. Our thanks to DEFCON for publishing their outstanding DEFCON Conference Main Stage Videos on the groups' YouTube channel.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Major sporting events like the Super Bowl face elevated cyber risks due to the proliferation of connected networks and devices used by venues, teams, vendors, media, and attendees. Fans will overwhelm cellular networks while simultaneously connecting to insecure public Wi-Fi networks at hotels, airports, and fan events.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 31, 2021

However, as recent events have shown us, entities that exist outside the business are equally vulnerable to system threats. From third-party suppliers to contractors and customers, many of these external users require authentication and authorization within your enterprise network. Outdated Systems.

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