Schneier on Security

MARCH 24, 2020

Puerto Rico is considered allowing for Internet voting. Cybersecurity experts agree that under current technology, no practically proven method exists to securely, verifiably, or privately return voted materials over the internet. I have joined a group of security experts in a letter opposing the bill.

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Joseph Steinberg

JUNE 30, 2022

Since then, I have seen many Internet memes circulate that appear to convey a similar message. Such a policy is also wise, if not overly generous, with regard to information obtained via the Internet, as there is never 100% certainty as to who crafted a particular piece of data or whether its sources are accurate.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2024

An internet outage impacted Orange Spain after a hacker gained access to the company’s RIPE account to misconfigure BGP routing. The hacker, who uses the moniker ‘Snow’, gained access to the RIPE account of Orange Spain and misconfigured the BGP routing causing an internet outage.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 8, 2022

If you’ve been on the internet at all over the past few weeks, you’ve heard. The post Twitter’s Authentication Nightmare appeared first on Axiad. The post Twitter’s Authentication Nightmare appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 26, 2020

Doing authentication well is vital for any company in the throes of digital transformation. Digital commerce would fly apart if businesses could not reliably affirm the identities of all humans and all machines, that is, computing instances, that are constantly connecting to each other across the Internet. We spoke at RSA 2020.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2023

Ivanti warned customers of a new critical Sentry API authentication bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-38035. While the issue has a high CVSS score, there is a low risk of exploitation for customers who do not expose port 8443 to the internet.” ” reads the advisory published by the company.

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Heimadal Security

AUGUST 31, 2021

The post CISA Advises Users to Not Use Single-factor Authentication on Internet-exposed Systems appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. The practices mentioned in the document are not to be used by organizations in the government and the private sector as they are able to expose them to unnecessary risks. Aside from […].

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

7 Tips to Follow for Safer Internet Day IdentityIQ The 20 th annual Safer Internet Day is taking place on Feb. Safer Internet Day is a campaign that aims to educate the public on internet safety and encourage everyone to take part in creating a safer internet. Why is Safer Internet Day Important?

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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. Only one of those requires physical presence with the rest enabling any kid anywhere in the world with an internet connection to grab troves of them with ease. That is all. Who is Your Adversary?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 3, 2022

Cybersecurity researchers from Proofpoint have found that cyber crooks are easily see foxing users of Multifactor Authentication (MFA) these days by buying phishing kits that have the ability to bypass MFA. After reading the article, you might get a feeling on how to proceed with Multi-factor Authentication and keep your online activity safe.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The technology industry hopes that Matter arises as the lingua franca for the Internet of Things. Matter seeks to achieve this right out of the gate by leveraging and extending the public key infrastructure (PKI) — the tried-and-true authentication and encryption framework that underpins the legacy Internet.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

From March 19, users of Twitter won’t be able to use SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) unless they have a subscription to the paid Twitter Blue service. You can still use the authentication app and security key methods. To avoid losing access to Twitter, remove text message two-factor authentication by Mar 19, 2023.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 10, 2021

According to the FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report, the Internet Crime Complaint Center received 791,790 cybercrime complaints in 2020, with. The post Keeping criminal justice information secure with advanced authentication appeared first on Entrust Blog.

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Ah, the Internet: a treasure trove of memes, cat videos, and—let’s be honest—some stuff you’d rather keep under wraps. Enter Two-Factor Authentication, or 2FA for short. Different Flavors of 2FA Ah, variety is the spice of life, and when it comes to Two-Factor Authentication, the flavors abound. The advantage?

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 31, 2023

The University of Michigan experienced an internet outage on August 27th that affected students, faculty, and staff across all three campuses just as the fall semester was kicking off. Students and faculty were also unable to connect to the internet on their personal devices. The outage began at approximately 1:40 p.m.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 1, 2022

However, in some countries like UK, certain UPS device making companies are offering them connected to the internet. Therefore, system administrators are being advised to put the connected UPS devices behind a virtual private network (VPN) and use them with a multifactor authentication in place.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

After a good start, the Internet-enabled, technological revolution we are living through has hit some bumps in the road. To celebrate Independence Day we want to draw your attention to five technologies that could improve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness on the Internet. Passwordless authentication. DNS encryption.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2022

Researchers from Cyber looked for VNC exposed over the internet and discovered over 8000 VNC instances with authentication disabled, most of them in China, Sweden, and the United States. Exposing VNCs to the internet, increases the likelihood of a cyberattack. connected via VNC and exposed over the internet.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Tech company F5 has warned customers about a critical authentication bypass vulnerability impacting its BIG-IP product line that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution. In general you can say that if the BIG-IP Traffic Management User Interface is exposed to the internet, then the system in question is impacted.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The Internet of Everything ( IoE ) is on the near horizon. For instance, very visibly over the past decade, Internet of Things ( IoT ) computing devices and sensors have become embedded everywhere. For instance, very visibly over the past decade, Internet of Things ( IoT ) computing devices and sensors have become embedded everywhere.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Safer Internet Day 2023: Empowering Kids and Families for a Safer Internet divya Tue, 02/07/2023 - 06:44 Save the date for Safer Internet Day 2023 , which will take place on Tuesday, 7 February 2023, the 20th edition of the campaign! Besides the benefits and opportunities offered by the internet, dangers and risks are looming.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Everything connected to the internet is vulnerable to cyber attacks. Use Strong Passwords & Two-Factor Authentication. If you want to have peace of mind that you are using the internet and tech devices safely, just call the LifeLock phone number and they will help you choose the right membership plan.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Staying Safe, While Staying Connected As more organizations enter the digital landscape of the Internet of Things (IoT), there are parallel increases in the number and frequencies of cyberattacks. The post Addressing Authentication Issues Within IoT appeared first on Enzoic. Make no mistake: threat.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Author/Presenters: Théophile Wallez, Inria Paris; Jonathan Protzenko, Benjamin Beurdouche, Karthikeyan Bhargavan Inria Paris Distinguished Paper Award Winner and Co-Winner of the 2023 Internet Defense Prize ( www.inria.fr/en/inria-paris-centre

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

When we think of ransomware and brute force password guessing attacks, we normally think of RDP, but recent research from Securonix reminds us that anything secured with a password and exposed to the Internet is of interest to cybercriminals. At the time this was said to represent 47% of Internet-connected MongoDB databases.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 20, 2023

Internet of Things (IoT) email authentication is becoming. The post IoT Email Authentication: Why It Matters appeared first on EasyDMARC. The post IoT Email Authentication: Why It Matters appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Identification and Authentication Issues in IoT The Internet of Things (IoT) provides everyday devices with the ability to identify and communicate with each other. The post Identification and Authentication Issues in IoT appeared first on Speranza.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 29, 2022

Cybersecurity researchers have found more than 900,000 instances of Kubernetes consoles exposed on the internet. The post Nearly a Million Kubernetes Instances Exposed on Internet appeared first on eSecurityPlanet. Cyble researchers detected misconfigured Kubernetes instances that could expose hundreds of thousands of organizations.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 30, 2021

When the number of computers on the internet could be counted with two hands, there was the password. Lo was the first word sent across the internet. What’s Coming I’m excited to share that Cisco is announcing Duo’s passwordless authentication. Workforces are ready for passwordless authentication. It has to be simple.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Not All Authentication Methods Are Equally Safe. There is broad recognition by security leaders that stronger authentication is foundational to preventing data breaches. While the concept of multifactor authentication is comprehensive, the devil is hiding in the implementation detail. Distinct user authentication journeys.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 9, 2021

In a blog, the Secureworks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) reported that Spiral exploited an internet-facing SolarWinds server to deploy the Supernova web shell. The vulnerability could let a remote attacker bypass authentication and execute API commands, which may result in a compromise of the SolarWinds instance.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 30, 2022

Hackers have begun to attack internet-connected universal power supply devices, targeting their control interfaces via multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities and, in some cases, unchanged default usernames and passwords, according to an advisory from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued on Tuesday.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2021

Passwordless authentication as a default parameter can’t arrive too soon. That’s the upshot of a new report, The State of Passwordless Security 2021 , put out by HYPR , a New York City-based supplier of advanced authentication systems. Related: Top execs call for facial recognition to be regulated. 1 use case is remote access.”.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 9, 2021

But since 79% of the Internet’s websites use PHP, it’s scary. Developers have moved PHP to GitHub, which has better authentication. It was two malicious commits , with the subject “fix typo” and the names of known PHP developers and maintainers. Hopefully it will be enough — PHP is a juicy target.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Threat actors targeted tens thousands of unauthenticated Redis servers exposed on the internet as part of a cryptocurrency campaign. The tool is not designed to be exposed on the Internet, however, researchers spotted tens thousands Redis instance publicly accessible without authentication. ” warns Censys.

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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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Adam Levin

AUGUST 3, 2018

Reddit, the self-proclaimed “front page of the Internet,” announced a security breach that occurred over a three-day period in June. Of greater concern is the ability of the hacker or hackers to bypass 2 factor authentication. The post Reddit Hack: Attack Bypasses 2-Factor Authentication appeared first on Adam Levin.

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