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Reddit Breach Highlights Limits of SMS-Based Authentication

Krebs on Security

What’s interesting about the incident is that it showcases once again why relying on mobile text messages (SMS) for two-factor authentication (2FA) can lull companies and end users into a false sense of security. APP-BASED AUTHENTICATION. As Web site breaches go, this one doesn’t seem too severe.

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Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

Krebs on Security

Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed piece of software has not been altered or tampered with. Intel 471 shows akafitis@gmail.com was used to register another O.R.Z. user account — this one on Verified[.]ru ru in 2008.

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Patch Tuesday, May 2024 Edition

Krebs on Security

Emerging in 2007 as a banking trojan, QakBot (a.k.a. Meanwhile, Kaspersky Lab , one of two companies credited with reporting exploitation of CVE-2024-30040 to Microsoft, has published a fascinating writeup on how they discovered the exploit in a file shared with Virustotal.com.

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FBI Arrests Alleged Owner of Deer.io, a Top Broker of Stolen Accounts

Krebs on Security

It also was used in 2007 to register xeka[.]ru Firsov is slated to be arraigned later this week, when he will face two felony counts, specifically aiding and abetting the unauthorized solicitation of access devices, and aiding and abetting trafficking in “false authentication features.” Image courtesy archive.org.

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Intuit to Share Payroll Data from 1.4M Small Businesses With Equifax

Krebs on Security

Equifax responded by taking down its Work Number website until it was able to include additional authentication requirements, saying anyone could opt out of Equifax revealing their salary history. a data broker acquired by Equifax in 2007. It didn’t help that for roughly half the U.S.

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Threat actors scan Internet for Vulnerable Microsoft Exchange Servers

Security Affairs

“Knowledge of a the validation key allows an authenticated user with a mailbox to pass arbitrary objects to be deserialized by the web application, which runs as SYSTEM.” ” Now the popular security researcher Kevin Beaumont reported mass scanning for the CVE-2020-0688 (Microsoft Exchange 2007+ RCE vulnerability).

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NEW TECH: DataLocker introduces encrypted flash drive — with key pad

The Last Watchdog

Co-founder Jay took a business trip to South Korea in the fall of 2007. It has a battery, so it’s platform independent and you don’t have to rely on the computer’s operating system to turn it on or authenticate it. On the receiving end, all they have to do is authenticate with a password to access the files.