Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2021

DEV-0343: Iran-linked threat actors are targeting US and Israeli defense technology companies leveraging password spraying attacks. ” Microsoft added that password spray attacks on Office 365 accounts with multifactor authentication (MFA) enabled failed. .” For Office 365 users, see multifactor authentication support.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 18, 2021

What Can Businesses Do to Adapt to the Evolving Technology, Breach Threats and Regulatory Challenges? Increased remote working and accelerated cloud transformation have driven organizations to rethink how they do security, especially cloud security. Tue, 05/18/2021 - 12:57. Challenges of an ever-changing digital age.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 7, 2024

and allied cybersecurity agencies are sounding the alarm over an ongoing campaign by pro-Russia hacktivist groups to target and compromise operational technology (OT) systems across critical infrastructure sectors in North America and Europe. Mandate multifactor authentication for privileged users. Multiple U.S.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Additionally, Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) have also been under scrutiny for the actions they’ve taken to address these issues. Protect your organization It’s crucial to understand that you can act now , you don’t have to wait to improve your security posture. Technology exists to harden your infrastructure.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Today, I was alerted to the fact after spotting a warning by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) about the same vulnerability, Something the BSI does not do lightly. When Microsoft said in its update guide for CVE-2024-21410 that the vulnerability was likely to be exploited by attackers, they weren’t kidding.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

You’ll find Thales on stand 152, level Daghilev, and don’t miss our workshop at 3pm on October 11th as Didier Espinet, Chief Information Security Officer, Thales DIS and Laini Cultier, IAM expert at Thales will present a session entitled “Trust and Security: The Keys to Success in the Public Cloud”.

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The Security Ledger

MAY 2, 2024

Host Paul Roberts speaks with Jim Broome, the CTO and President of MSSP DirectDefense about the evolution of cybersecurity threats and how technologies like AI are reshaping the cybersecurity landscape and the work of defenders and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP). Read the whole entry. »

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

When someone is told that passwords are going away in favor of a new, “password-less” authentication method, a healthy dose of skepticism is not unwarranted. Experts in the fields of data protection and information security now look towards new technologies to make system access much more secure. What is WebAuthn?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2024

The malicious build interferes with the authentication in sshd through systemd. Under certain conditions, an attacker can compromise sshd authentication and gain unauthorized remote access to the entire system. CISA also published an advisory urging to downgrade to an uncompromised XZ version (i.e.,

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The vulnerability was discovered by security researchers at Positive Technologies and disclosed to Citrix in October 10, 2023. The company prompted customers to reset their passwords and recommended they enable multi-factor authentication.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The study, conducted by independent research firm Propeller Insights, dives into how IT business leaders feel about their security posture in a world where the technologies they embrace to grow and thrive are also vulnerable to constant and increasing threats. Human error is among the top causes of security breaches.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 11, 2023

Zero Trust is a cybersecurity framework that can greatly support Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) in their roles of securing organizational systems and data. This approach significantly reduces the risk of lateral movement and unauthorized access within the network.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

SMBs and enterprises alike have been struggling with APIs as a mechanism for information security. To protect against these attacks, businesses need to implement a wide range of strong API security measures such as authentication, authorization, encryption, and vulnerability scanning.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2024

In this advisory, I aim to explore how implementing a specific security technological combination (TLS and DDNS) negatively influences the overall security, inadvertently creating opportunities for attackers to exploit weaknesses on a massive scale. For instance, suppose firewall manufacturer ACME Inc.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The threat actor compromised network administrator credentials through the account of a former employee that was used to successfully authenticate to an internal virtual private network (VPN) access point. Neither of the two administrative accounts had multifactor authentication (MFA) enabled.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2023

An attacker can trigger the flaw to gain remote code execution and conduct denial-of-service attacks under specific conditions, exposing operational technology (OT) environments to hacking. could put operational technology (OT) infrastructure at risk of attacks, such as remote code execution (RCE) and denial of service (DoS).”

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As technology evolves, so do the methods employed by hackers, making passwords both inconvenient and increasingly susceptible to breaches. You may have heard that passkeys are an emerging method to secure our accounts and devices in the digital age. Passkeys and passwords have different authentication methods. What is a Passkey?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 28, 2023

Understanding the FTC Safeguards Rule The FTC Safeguards Rule is a set of regulations that require covered financial institutions to develop, implement, and maintain an information security program designed to protect customer information. Implementation of multi-factor authentication.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

The technologies for secure remote access can range from VPNs and multi-factor authentication to more advanced access and zero trust controls. We’ll cover a range of best practices for remote access security, from the simple and the practical to the more advanced.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Threat actors exploited this vulnerability to hijack existing authenticated sessions and bypass multifactor authentication or other strong authentication requirements. The attacks observed by Mandiant aimed at professional services, technology, and government organizations. states Mandiant. states Mandiant.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2024

A remote attacker can trigger the flaw to reboot PAN-OS firewalls when receiving Windows New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) packets from Windows servers. The flaw affects only PAN-OS configurations with NTLM authentication enabled. The third DoS vulnerability addressed by the vendor is tracked as CVE-2024-3382.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2021

Fortinet has recently addressed a high-severity vulnerability ( CVE-2021-22123 ) affecting its FortiWeb web application firewall (WAF), a remote, authenticated attacker can exploit it to execute arbitrary commands via the SAML server configuration page. ” reads the advisory published by the vendor. The flaw received a CVSSv3 score of 7.4

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2024

The National Police Agency in South Korea warns that North Korea-linked threat actors are targeting defense industry entities to steal defense technology information. “North Korean hacking organizations sometimes infiltrated defense companies directly, and their security is relatively low. concludes the advisory.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Nearly all CMS platforms, whether traditional or headless, offer some level of built-in security to authenticate users who are allowed to view, add, remove, or change content. Best security practices. or higher) encryption protocol, because systems using an older version of TLS are a security risk.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

The researcher said he informed the USPS about his finding more than a year ago yet never received a response. “This is not even Information Security 101, this is Information Security 1, which is to implement access control,” Weaver said.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Threat actors exploited this vulnerability to hijack existing authenticated sessions and bypass multifactor authentication or other strong authentication requirements. The attacks observed by Mandiant aimed at professional services, technology, and government organizations. ” states Mandiant.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The Sandworm group (aka BlackEnergy , UAC-0082 , Iron Viking , Voodoo Bear , and TeleBots ) has been active since 2000, it operates under the control of Unit 74455 of the Russian GRU’s Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST). “Note (!)

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2024

The attacks focus on industrial control systems (ICS) and other operational technology (OT) systems in the target infrastructure. ” The pro-Russia hacktivists tend to over exaggerate their the effects of the attacks.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Threat actors exploited this vulnerability to hijack existing authenticated sessions and bypass multifactor authentication or other strong authentication requirements. The attacks observed by Mandiant aimed at professional services, technology, and government organizations. states Mandiant. states Mandiant.

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Joseph Steinberg

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

I was recently asked to take a look at CrowdSec – a new, free, open-source information security technology created in France that seeks to improve the current situation. at the end of 2020, and reported to me that its technology is already being used in over 70 countries across all six continents (other than Antarctica).

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 28, 2022

Most importantly, it means they must be in compliance with several new rules to protect consumer information by December 2022. And one of the few security technologies that is specifically called out by the FTC is multi-factor authentication (MFA). How does MFA fit into an information security program?

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 23, 2020

SecureWorld Panel: Identity, Authentication, and the Remote Workforce. Three SecureWorld panel speakers for "Identity, Authentication, and the Remote Workforce" have answers. He said: "We power a lot of the authentication and authorization under some of the biggest brands in the world. Licata] "I always go back to process.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

While the default security settings have improved over the review period, some popular brands either offer default passwords or no authentication, meaning anyone can spy on the spies. It is worrying that all analyzed brands have at least some models that allow users to keep default passwords or have no authentication setup whatsoever.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 25, 2023

While newer medical device designs have improved cybersecurity controls, organizations must prepare for and defend against a broad spectrum of technology while also dealing with software end-of-life issues in legacy medical devices.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2024

is an Authentication Bypass issue that resides in the web component of Ivanti ICS 9.x, x and Ivanti Policy Secure. is a command injection vulnerability in web components of Ivanti Connect Secure (9.x, x) and Ivanti Policy Secure. The flaw CVE-2023-46805 (CVSS score 8.2) reads the advisory published by Ivanti.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 6, 2022

But they have more disadvantages than benefits if we talk about ensuring information security. G-71 created the state-of-the-art information security solution LeaksID to protect private and corporate documents from illegal access, complementing DLP systems. The technology uses the steganography method.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2023

The IT giant announced that these devices will receive no security updates to address the bug because they have reached end of life (EoL). The flaw is an authentication bypass issue that resides in the web-based management interface of the routers, an attacker. reads the advisory published by the company.

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