Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2019

If you bank online and choose weak or re-used passwords, there’s a decent chance your account could be pilfered by cyberthieves — even if your bank offers multi-factor authentication as part of its login process. This targeting can occur in at least one of two ways. “This is where we’re going,” Cardinal said.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Here’s what you should know about the risks, what aviation is doing to address those risks, and how to overcome them. It is difficult to deny that cyberthreats are a risk to planes. Risks delineated Still, there have been many other incidents since. Fortunately, there are ways to address the risks.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

BEC attacks: a growing financial and security risk BEC remains one of the most financially devastating cyber threats, with losses worldwide reaching into the billions. Organizations should enforce least privilege access and enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) on all accounts that have it available.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Two security flaws found in Xerox VersaLink MFPs could allow hackers to capture authentication credentials and move laterally through enterprise networks and highlight the often-overlooked cyber risks that printers and other IoT devices present to organizations.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2025

OPERATIONAL MANUALS AND DECEPTION STRATEGIES As further evidence of the increasing professionalization of this illicit sector, Meridian Group reports the publication of informational content designed to guide the proper use of EDR services, presented as a detailed guide on how to correctly complete and unlawfully submit the requests.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 22, 2025

security professionals, highlighting a few worrisome findings: Deepfake risks increasingly target vulnerable board members and executives. Typically, the attacker collects authentic media samples of their target, including still images, videos, and audio clips, to train the deep learning model.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Protecting Retailers Against Cyber Risks on Black Friday and Cyber Monday josh.pearson@t… Tue, 11/26/2024 - 08:01 As Black Friday and Cyber Monday loom, the stakes for retailers extend far beyond enticing deals and record sales. trillion, the risk of a data breach extends beyond immediate financial losses. trillion and $5.28

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Available now in all paid Duo subscriptions The launch of Duo Mobile in the early 2010s changed how businesses enabled secure authentication. Other means of authentication outside of smartphones — hardware tokens, phone call authentication, SMS, etc. have proven to be either antiquated, expensive or vulnerable.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 15, 2025

15, 2025, CyberNewswire — Quantum computing is set to revolutionize technology, but it also presents a significant security risk for financial institutions. Today, the company offers mobile-first software authentication and hardware authenticators trusted by major European banks. Prague, Czech Republic, Jan.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Of those malicious apps, 5,200 could subvert one of the strongest security practices available today, called multifactor authentication, by prying into basic text messages sent to a device. Instead, they present a modern wrapper on a classic form of theft: Phishing. This does not make multifactor authentication useless.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

One piece of evidence to support this hypothesis is the low adoption of a basic security control that protects against identity-based attacks - multi-factor authentication (MFA). Add to this, the risks of weak authentication factors such as SMS one-time passcodes and dormant or inactive accounts.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 19, 2022

One new tactic hackers have been using is to steal cookies from current or recent web sessions to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). Even cloud infrastructures rely on cookies to authenticate their users. Browsers allow users to maintain authentication, remember passwords and autofill forms. How Hackers Steal Cookies.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 17, 2024

The event not only showcases athletic prowess but also presents a significant challenge for cybersecurity professionals. The report identifies a range of risks including cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure, event management systems, and personal data of athletes and attendees.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This innovative approach empowers security teams to proactively protect against previously unseen risks, including the darknet exposures of identity and authentication data stolen about employees, consumers, and suppliers that have been beyond their visibility to date.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Risk management is a concept that has been around as long as companies have had assets to protect. Risk management also extends to physical devices, such as doors and locks to protect homes and vehicles, vaults to protect money and precious jewels, and police, fire, and CCTV to protect against other physical risks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 1, 2022

While verification and authentication are terms that are often used interchangeably, they are in fact two separate operations. Digital verification and authentication play a critical role in preventing fraud and cyberattacks. Verification helps to both deter and weed out criminals, mitigating the risk of fraud and data breaches.

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Enter Two-Factor Authentication, or 2FA for short. It’s a security method that requires you to present not one but two forms of ID before granting you access. Different Flavors of 2FA Ah, variety is the spice of life, and when it comes to Two-Factor Authentication, the flavors abound. Ever considered the risks of free proxy ?

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SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This incident serves as a stark reminder of the critical risks posed by global IT disruptions and supply chain weaknesses. XZ backdoor to bypass SSH authentication What happened? Kaspersky presented detailed technical analysis of this case in three parts. million systems worldwide. Why does it matter? Why does it matter?

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Instead of traditional methods that rely on storing and matching biometrics, SenseCrypt eID utilizes acts of encryption and decryption for registration and authentication, with no public/private keys stored anywhere. Unlike other solutions available in the market, the QR codes generated do not contain any biometric data.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 22, 2025

This attack represents a notable shift in tactics used by cybercriminals targeting the cryptocurrency sector and highlights the risks posed by commonly used communication tools like Zoom. The research behind the discovery was released by Security Alliance , which tracked and analyzed the campaign.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 27, 2022

Underlying all of this optimism, however, is the ever-present threat of cyberattack. Throughout this period, the risk level of the acquirer is much higher than the acquired company, creating a major cybersecurity gap as they merge their tech stack and security tools together. They can be divided into two categories: Pre-Close Risks.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2022

Apple , Google and Microsoft announced this week they will soon support an approach to authentication that avoids passwords altogether, and instead requires users to merely unlock their smartphones to sign in to websites or online services. “I worry about forgotten password recovery for cloud accounts.”

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NetSpi Technical

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

It focuses on distilling data related to shares configured with excessive privileges to better understand their relationships and risk. For those interested in the previous PowerHuntShares release, here is the blog and presentation. Risk Scoring “Be honest, how bad is it?” Let the pseudo-TLDR/release notes begin!

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 25, 2023

Countless websites and online services use SMS text messages for both password resets and multi-factor authentication. The unfortunate result of the SIM-swap against the Kroll employee is that people who had financial ties to BlockFi, FTX, or Genesis now face increased risk of becoming targets of SIM-swapping and phishing attacks themselves.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Today, there are two major types of common CMS platforms: •The older “traditional” or “monolithic” CMS platforms include a content repository (usually a multimedia database), the administrative console (where content is added and categorized), the presentation system (which makes nice-looking pages), and the search engine. Gierlinger.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2025

Critically, the malicious extension only requires read/write capabilities present in the majority of browser extensions on the Chrome Store, including common productivity tools like Grammarly, Calendly and Loom, desensitizing users from granting these permissions.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 3, 2025

Six months of meetings and presentations led nowhere. I learned this lesson the hard way early in my career when I presented what I thought was an airtight case for a new endpoint security solution. Have you briefed key influencers one-on-one before group presentations? Have standard communication tasks been completed?

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 5, 2023

We implement two factor authentication. This approach was chosen to avoid the risk of people being further targeted as a result of their inclusion in Genesis. Use multifactor authentication. Cybercriminals then use this data for purposes ranging from identity theft to phishing attacks to credential stuffing.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Consumers and organizations are enthused about the operational benefits of more robust mobile connectivity, but the shift to 5G networks doesn’t come without risks. Here we’ll discuss the most significant risks posed by 5G, how U.S. Table of Contents What Are the Cybersecurity Risks of 5G? How is 5G Different?

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The vulnerability Context Security discovered meant exposing the Wi-Fi credentials of the network the device was attached to, which is significant because it demonstrates that IoT vulnerabilities can put other devices on the network at risk as well. Are these examples actually risks in IoT?

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 15, 2022

The presentation at last week’s Black Hat security conference by NCC’s Iain Smart and Viktor Gazdag, titled “RCE-as-a-Service: Lessons Learned from 5 Years of Real-World CI/CD Pipeline Compromise,” builds on previous work NCC researchers have done on compromised CI/CD pipelines. CI/CD Approaches Create Risk.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 31, 2025

Learn why these modern security practices are essential for safer, stronger authentication. 2025 must be the year we adopt modern security practices, such as passkeys, phishing-resistant 2FA, and password managers, to ensure safer, stronger authentication for everyone. Passwordless authentication. So, whats the alternative?

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SecureList

MAY 28, 2025

Additionally, several debugging functions were still present in the versions captured in the wild. It copied both the name and icon of the legitimate app, making it appear authentic to unsuspecting users. On this page, a prominent button labeled “Ir a Accesibilidad” (“Go to Accessibility”) was presented.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 30, 2024

These rules , which mandate that all public companies disclose material cybersecurity incidents within four business days and detail their risk management strategies, highlight that cybersecurity is a board-level risk management concern. Tenable CEO Amit Yoran had a clear point of view when he wrote about the rules as they took effect.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2022

“Thankfully, this is a post-authentication vulnerability, meaning attackers need credentials to exploit it,” Wiseman said. “Luckily, like this month’s Exchange vulnerabilities, this, too, requires authentication.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2020

From the telemarketer’s perspective, the TCPA can present something of a legal minefield in certain situations, such as when a phone number belonging to someone who’d previously given consent gets reassigned to another subscriber.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 28, 2021

Experian says it has plugged the data leak, but the researcher who reported the finding says he fears the same weakness may be present at countless other lending websites that work with the credit bureau. He even built a handy command-line tool to automate the lookups, which he dubbed “Bill’s Cool Credit Score Lookup Utility.”

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