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GitHub: Nearly 100,000 NPM Users’ credentials stolen in the April OAuth token attack

Security Affairs

GitHub excluded that the attacker obtained these tokens via a compromise of GitHub or its systems, the company explained that the stolen tokens used to access the repositories are not stored by GitHub in their original, usable formats. . Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g.

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Critical flaw in Ninja Forms WordPress Plugin actively exploited in the wild

Security Affairs

. “One potentially critical exploit chain in particular involves the use of the NF_Admin_Processes_ImportForm class to achieve remote code execution via deserialization, though there would need to be another plugin or theme installed on the site with a usable gadget.” ” added the researchers. 3.1.10, 3.2.28, 3.3.21.4,

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Administrator’s Guide, Part 3: What Makes Passwordless, Dare We Say It, Phish-Proof?

Duo's Security Blog

Part of our Administrator's Guide to Passwordless blog series See the video at the blog post. Because of this, the signed assertion is only usable by the page matching the origin. The other category of WebAuthn-compliant authenticators are roaming authenticators. NFC is only usable over short distances of a few inches.

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What is a cyberattack? Why knowing adversary tactics helps prepare for threats

BH Consulting

This blog is the first in a series where I will cover what a cyberattack involves, outline how it’s carried out, and explain how it might differ depending on your chosen technology platform. The framework divides attacks into 14 separate categories and provides in-depth descriptions of the techniques associated with each one.

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Taking on the Next Generation of Phishing Scams

Google Security

This blog will deep dive into the method of phishing and how it has evolved today. Taking a broad view, most efforts to protect and defend against phishing fall into the following categories: Browser UI improvements to help users identify authentic websites.

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Calling Home, Get Your Callbacks Through RBI

Security Boulevard

This blog post describes methods that SpecterOps consultants have researched to successfully circumvent this technology during offensive assessments. We categorize our suggested techniques into three categories: ingress, egress, and bypass. As with many solutions, usability equals abusability.

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The Role of Functional Testing in Application Security

ForAllSecure

Functional testing differs from non-functional testing in that functional testing focuses on verifying the functional requirements of software while non-functional testing serves for performance testing and checks for performance problems, usability issues, and other issues that are not directly related to functional use cases.