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Password Managers Under Attack, Shady Reward Apps on Google Play, Meta Account Center 2FA Bypass

Security Boulevard

The attacks on password managers and their users continue as Bitwarden and 1Password users have reported seeing paid ads for phishing sites in Google search results for the official login page of the password management vendors.

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"Pwned", the Book, is Finally Here!

Troy Hunt

Captivating stuff, apart from infosec, you really feel as though you’ve been taken on a journey with Troy through the years of living in paradise a.k.a. Great to see a book deliver this authenticity - we're all only human after all! I haven't been able to put the book down. This book has it all.

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CISA adds Plex Media Server bug, exploited in LastPass attack, to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

Security Affairs

The three-year-old high-severity flaw is a deserialization of untrusted data in Plex Media Server on Windows, a remote, authenticated attacker can trigger it to execute arbitrary Python code. CISAgov added #CVE -2020-5741 & CVE-2021-39144 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. in May 2020.

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Celebrate Identity Management Day by Taking Identity Security Seriously

CyberSecurity Insiders

In honor of the day coming up on April 12, I spoke to the below industry experts on how both individuals and organizations can strengthen identity management all year round. Those steps can become overwhelming for small businesses with staff shortages, small budgets or limited time.

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Protect IT—A Combination of Security Culture and Cyber Hygiene Good Practices

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Per Symantec , they should specifically require passwords that contain at least 16 characters comprised of upper- and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols. Infosec personnel should also help employees store those passwords safely such as via the use of a password manager. Implement Multi-Factor Authentication.

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Evolving Identity: Why Legacy IAM May Not Be Fit for Purpose

CyberSecurity Insiders

Multi-factor authentication is great for security, but can still be a chore for the average person to use. In some cases, people will choose weak passwords, relying on the security of the multi-factor process as the extra safety mechanism. The InfoSec Perspective. Here To Stay.

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Personal Cybersecurity Concerns for 2023

Security Through Education

The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency , lists the following 4 steps to protect yourself: Implement multi-factor authentication on your accounts and make it significantly less likely you’ll get hacked. Use strong passwords, and ideally a password manager to generate and store unique passwords.