Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

“Targeting the authentication component of your site, this DDoS attack was led by a coordinating 402,000 different IPs, lasted 13 days and directed a peak flow of 292,000 RPS (Requests Per Second). The attackers attempted to saturate the authentication component of the streaming site.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2021

SonicWall also provides recommendations to customers that can’t update their installs, the vendor suggests disconnecting devices immediately and reset their access passwords, and enable account multi-factor authentication, if supported. The affected end-of-life devices with 8.x x firmware are past temporary mitigations. 34 or 9.0.0.10

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The OPM breach put most federal workers since the year 2000 are at risk. You’ll recall that in the OPM breach , the cyber intruders stole a a staggering amount of highly sensitive information – deep personnel records for 21.5 million federal employees and contractors.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2019

Experts at the CISA Agency successfully exploited the BlueKeep flaw on a machine running Windows 2000. The agency urges Microsoft users and administrators to install security patches, disable unnecessary services, enable Network Level Authentication (NLA) if available, and block TCP port 3389. Enable Network Level Authentication.

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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

Far from being jealously guarded assets with Fort Knox-level security, a new study of Forbes Global 2000 Companies suggests many domain names are imminently hackable. It should include an inventory of who can access registrar accounts, implementation of two-factor authentication, and password hygiene checks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2018

The attacker tries to authenticate on an OpenSSH endpoint using a malformed authentication request (i.e. If the username included in the malformed authentication request does not exist, the server responds with authentication failure reply, otherwise, the server closes the connection without a reply. a truncated packet).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2019

Skyscanner will pay up rewards up to $1,500/$2,000 per vulnerability such as security misconfigurations, server-side injection issues, broken authentication issues, sensitive data exposure, and cryptography-related bugs. PRIORITY REWARD FOCUS AREA P1 $1500 $2000 P2 $900 $1200 P3 $300 $400 P4 $100 $150. “It ” Skyscanner added.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Clorox estimates the costs of the August cyberattack will exceed $49 Million Mastodon fixed a flaw that can allow the takeover of any account Iranian hackers breached Albania’s Institute of Statistics (INSTAT) Operation Synergia led to the arrest of 31 individuals Ex CIA employee Joshua Adam Schulte sentenced to 40 years in prison Cloudflare breached (..)

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Setting Up an Instant Registration Database You don’t know who’s going to sign up and register, and you don’t have time to integrate it with any databases you have with citizen data in order to uniquely identify and authenticate them. This does a bit of authentication by proving possession of the email address that was registered.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2019

“ Crooks claim they are conducting a “ large international operation set to arrest more than 2000 individuals in 27 countries.” The messages used in the “CIA” sextortion campaign are well-written with a good layout, they appear as authentic. The message implies that the recipient is accused of being one of them.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

Horizon3 found that at least 2000 servers are running with a dangerous default configuration. “Session Validation attacks in Apache Superset versions up to and including 2.0.1. The application then validates the signature on the cookie to re-authenticate the user prior to processing the request. ” reads the advisory.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Box 2000 Chester, PA 19016. Spouses may request freezes for each other by phone as long as they pass authentication. By Mail: Experian Security Freeze. Box 9554, Allen, TX 75013. Online: TransUnion. By Phone: 888-909-8872. By Mail: TransUnion LLC.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 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). The CERT also provided Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) for these attacks.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 10, 2024

From today until December 31, 2023, the price for a subscription to Atomic MacOs Stealer is only $2000. Stealing browser cookies can sometimes be even better than having the victim’s password, enabling authentication into accounts via session tokens. Happy New Year!

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Malwarebytes

JULY 15, 2021

SSL-VPN 200/2000/400 (EOL 2013/2014) disconnect immediately and reset passwords. The notice mentions the following products along with recommended actions: SRA 4600/1600 (EOL 2019) disconnect immediately and reset passwords. SRA 4200/1200 (EOL 2016) disconnect immediately and reset passwords. SMA 400/200 Update to 10.2.0.7-34 34 or 9.0.0.10

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 28, 2021

Do encourage your company to engage with multi-factor authentication (MFA) , which gives you multiple layers of protection: Only 36% of respondents suggested that MFA had been implemented. . This survey was conducted with 2000 US and UK remote workers in December 2020. About the survey.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 14, 2022

The oldest vulnerability on that list is CVE- 2002 -0367 , an almost 20 year old vulnerability in Windows NT and Windows 2000. allows remotely authenticated users to cause a denial of service by modifying SNMP variables. The first thing that jumped out at me is that these vulnerabilities were not all very new at all.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 1, 2024

MOVEit Transfer had an authentication bypass that affected 2,700 instances. Apple issued updates for AirPods’ Bluetooth authentication bypass flaw. To improve security, users should update software on a regular basis, establish strong authentication procedures, and limit access to key resources.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 8, 2024

This act, set to replace the existing frameworks under the Information Technology Act of 2000 and the SPDI Rules of 2011, provides a comprehensive approach to protecting digital personal data. It limits administrators' control over security activities and encryption keys, supporting two-factor authentication.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 18, 2021

Whether it is the lowest level of protocols that we use, to the highest levels of authentication, cryptography is so prevalent, and seamless, as to be invisible to the average person. On the one hand, we should be very concerned, especially when we consider the scale at which we use cryptography.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2019

The initial vulnerability that we discovered in October 2012 was related to the “Internet Key Exchange and Authenticated Internet Protocol Keying Modules”. Those modules are used for authentication and key exchange in Internet Protocol security. The problem was that they try to load a DLL which doesn’t exist. That’s all for today.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 18, 2021

Whether it is the lowest level of protocols that we use, to the highest levels of authentication, cryptography is so prevalent, and seamless, as to be invisible to the average person. On the one hand, we should be very concerned, especially when we consider the scale at which we use cryptography.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

The post on the forum referenced "a collection of 2000+ dehashed databases and Combos stored by topic" and provided a directory listing of 2,890 of the files which I've reproduced here. Also turn on 2-factor authentication wherever it's available. What can you do if you were in the data?

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

Founded in 2000 , Sunnyvale, California headquartered Fortinet’s flagship FortiGate provides enterprise-grade firewall solutions. With strong scalability and robust support for detecting, profiling, and onboarding traditional and non-traditional IT devices, FortiNAC provides a strong option for many enterprises to consider. Who is Fortinet?

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

By 1999, its successor – the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol – offered a more robust cryptographic protocol across technical components like cipher suites, record protocol, message authentication , and handshake process. HTTP over SSL or HTTP over TLS, dubbed HTTPS, wasn’t immediately adopted by the masses.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Meaning, authentication bypasses weren’t enough. After decoding the files , most of the API endpoints and the web interface were not accessible without authentication. The daemon takes XML data, parses the request and carries out the action without any authentication, except making sure the request came from 127.0.0.1.

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SC Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Since the IC3 was created in 2000, it has consistently shined a light on forms of cybercrime – some new and evolving, others belligerently persistent – and has made laudable strides in stopping the fraudulent transfer of funds whenever possible. Authenticate all workflows.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 21, 2022

This is true for all types of key and certificate compromises, including those used for SSL, SSH, mobile, and authentication. Did you know that over 65% of Global 2000 organizations take one or more days to respond to a trust-based attack that has infiltrated the enterprise network? Alexa Hernandez. Data Breach.

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McAfee

AUGUST 24, 2021

CVE-2021-33885 – Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity (CVSS 9.7). CVE-2021-33882 – Missing Authentication for Critical Function (CVSS 8.2). If we review our attack chain, we can gain user-level access to the device without authentication or authorization. Braun on January 11, 2021. Braun’s website.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The three innovators and MIT patented the RSA algorithm, a proprietary system available through RSA Security until its public release in 2000. The RSA algorithm remains the most popular public key cryptographic system today and introduced the concept of digital signatures for authentication outside of academia.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

For control access, authorization grants users least privilege while the Azure Active Directory manages authentication at the database level. Through Azure, Microsoft offers 14 database products, all of which have some level of built-in security. Other features include auditing, activity monitoring, threat detection, and more.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Founded: 2000. Founded: 2000. Intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS). Extended detection and response (XDR). Container and Kubernetes security. Cybersecurity products. Headquarters: Sunnyvale, California. Annual Revenue: $2.6 Appearances on eSecurity Planet ‘s Top Vendors lists: 9. Headquarters: Boston, Mass.

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Fox IT

MARCH 19, 2020

Both network segments were able to connect to domain controllers in the same domain and could interact with objects, authenticate users, query information and more. Personal information, such as a telephone number or street address, is by default readable for every authenticated user in the forest.

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NopSec

APRIL 30, 2023

Researchers determined that authenticated threat actors could leverage the AutoDiscovery or OWA Exchange endpoints to trigger the deserialization sink. Exploitation is only possible if an attacker can reach port eighty (80) and the PowerShell entry point must use Kerberos for authentication.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The backdoor hooks the password authentication function to allow the attacker to use any username/password to log in to the infected server without any further verification. It does the same with public key authentication. If the script detects that it’s running on Windows 2000, XP, 2003 or Vista, it shuts down.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

The initial setup process is notable, as CAST joins a small club of ASM vendors that not only offer multifactor authentication by default, they require it to be configured on first login. Conclusion: Put text inline after the bolded title. Deployment and configuration. Be the change you want to see, right? Conclusion.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

Since 2009, Okta has been a thought leader in the access, authentication, and authorization space. Azure AD currently boasts over 30 billion daily authentication requests, totaling 171 terabytes of daily data to inform remediation and risk mitigation. Also read our Top Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) Solutions.

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