eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

Two unique features that LastPass offers are support for multi-factor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO). With MFA, your IT administrators can configure an extra layer of authentication that combines biometric technology with contextual intelligence. LastPass disadvantages: history of hacking.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2021

“A malicious actor with network access to UEM can send their requests without authentication and may exploit this issue to gain access to sensitive information.” and above 2011 Workspace ONE UEM patch 20.11.0.40 and above 2011 Workspace ONE UEM patch 20.11.0.40 ” reads the analysis published by VMware.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 31, 2024

This feature was rolled out in 2011 to “improve the user experience by making it easier for users to tag photographs with the names of people in the photo.” Therefore, we welcome Facebook’s move away from this kind of broad identification and will closely follow its planned future move toward narrower forms of personal authentication.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 27, 2018

She was pretty shocked when I showed her this as it was precisely the same verbal password as she used to authenticate to her bank. Sidenote: she's an avid 1Password user and has been since 2011, this password dated back a couple of decades when, like most people still do today, she had reused it extensively).

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 13, 2022

According to reports , the attack may be initiated remotely and no form of authentication is required for exploitation, but some form of user interaction is required. CVE-2022-2011 : Use after free in ANGLE. CVE-2022-2010 : Out of bounds read in compositing.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) has been around for many years now, but few enterprises have fully embraced it. In fact, according to Microsoft’s inaugural “ Cyber Signals ” report, only 22 percent of all its Azure Active Directory (AD) enterprise clients have adopted two-factor authentication (2FA), a form of MFA.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2022

There are a lot of those because the ZeuS banking Trojan source code was leaked in 2011, and so there’s been plenty of time for several new variants to emerge. Microsoft has announced that its Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) has taken legal and technical action to disrupt a malicious botnet called Zloader. Stay safe, everyone!

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

According to a report published by Symantec in 2017, Longhorn is a North American hacking group that has been active since at least 2011. The new DePriMon downloader was used by the Lambert APT group, aka Longhorn, to deploy malware. Then the DePriMon malware uses Schannel for the communication.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2021

CVE-2021-3156 Sudo vulnerability has allowed any local user to gain root privileges on Unix-like operating systems without authentication. The Sudo CVE-2021-3156 vulnerability, dubbed Baron Samedit, could have been exploited by any local user to gain root privileges on Unix-like operating systems without requiring authentication (i.e.,

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Cisco Security

MARCH 27, 2021

We’re fans: in fact, Cisco Umbrella has supported Encrypted DNS since 2011. But unlike enterprise cloud services, which authenticate users before letting them in, DoH doesn’t have a gatekeeper. Read more about DoH in this blog by my colleague Nancy Cam-Winget.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2019

Security experts at Pen Test Partners (PTP) discovered a privilege-escalation vulnerability in Lenovo Solution Centre (LSC) that exists since 2011. The binary executed by the scheduled task overwrites the DACL of the Lenovo product’s logs folder, giving everyone in the Authenticated Users usergroup full read/write access to them.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2020

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011. . Other videos demonstrate that the hackers of the APT35 group were not attempting to validate credentials against sites that were set up with multifactor authentication.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2022

Intezer cybersecurity researchers have detailed a new information-stealing malware, dubbed YTStealer, that was developed to steal authentication cookies from YouTube content creators. “If YTStealer finds authentication cookies for YouTube, it does something interesting though. ” reads the post published by Intezer.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

An attempted attack requires user authentication.” The remote process execution is bound to a web service account, which depending on the web platform used may have restricted permissions. ” The issue affects OfficeScan versions XG SP1, XG (Non-SP GM build), 11.0 SP1 for Windows. ” reported ZDNet.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 4, 2021

I had a lively discussion about this with Rohyt Belani, co-founder and CEO of Cofense, which started out as PhishMe in 2011. The story line in this one was actually pretty simplistic, but they had all the right logos and a very authentic look and feel,” Belani told me. “It

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Increasing Bounties for Account Takeover VulnerabilitiesSince 2011, our Bug Bounty program has been among the most… Gepostet von Facebook Bug Bounty am Dienstag, 20. November 2018. The bug bounty programs are becoming crucial for companies to assess their products and infrastructure and to avoid data breaches.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

2011 — Sony Pictures — A hack of Sony’s data storage exposes the records of over 100 million customers using their PlayStation’s online services. 2011 — RSA SAFETY — Sophisticated hackers steal information about RSA’s SecurID authentication tokens, used by millions of people, including government and bank employees.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Even if passwords don’t completely disappear (and there are still password purists), multi-factor authentication can limit or eliminate the need for remembering complex passwords and significantly reducing the chances of hacking. Microsoft's model relies on downloading its app for authentication. How does it work and is it trustworthy?

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2021

ClearPass is especially suited for high-volume authentication environments, offering more than 10 million authentications a day, as well as distributed environments requiring local authentication survivability across multiple geographies. Agentless solutions provide more flexibility when identifying and authenticating devices.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

Most recently, the company used phone numbers provided for two-factor authentication for advertising and networking purposes. And Facebook has repeatedly violated a 2011 Federal Trade Commission consent order regarding user privacy. Facebook needs to be both explicit and detailed about how and when it shares user data.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2019

China-linked cyber espionage group APT20 has been bypassing two-factor authentication (2FA) in recent attacks, cyber-security firm Fox-IT warns. The APT20 group has been active since at least 2011, but experts did not associate any campaign with this threat actors between 2016 and 2017. “Operation Wocao (??

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The genesis of the organization began in 2011 when many of the i2Coalition founding and charter members joined forces during the successful effort to prevent SOPA and PIPA from becoming United States law. Advertising Practices: Given the complexity and different use cases for VPNs, claims must not mislead.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 21, 2022

SHA-1 was officially deprecated by NIST in 2011 and its usage for digital signatures was prohibited in 2013. Challenges toward post-quantum cryptography: confidentiality and authentication. Since 2005, SHA-1 has been regarded as unsafe against well-funded adversaries. Since 2020, chosen-prefix attacks against SHA-1 are feasible.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011 targeting journalists and activists in the Middle East, as well as organizations in the United States, and entities in the U.K., Israel, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 7, 2022

In 2011, Forrester estimated that each call to the help desk for a password reset costs $70. You may be able to start shifting your users away from passwords by embarking on the passwordless authentication journey. Users can rely on existing STA authentication methods to securely authenticate, reset or change their passwords.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

“We recommend people evaluate the authenticity of emails they receive about major conferences by ensuring that the sender address looks legitimate and that any embedded links redirect to the official conference domain. ” suggest Microsoft. Saudi Arabia, and Iraq.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011. . “The emails contained links to fake Google Books pages which redirected to sign-in pages designed to steal credentials and two-factor authentication codes.”

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Webroot

MAY 12, 2021

“What Bitcoin was to 2011, NFTs are to 2021.”. A distributed group of devices does the work to vouch for the authenticity of the token the same way it does for a bitcoin. An often used and helpful analogy is to certificates of authenticity (COA) like those used in the art world.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011. . In some instances, they gathered phone numbers belonging to their targets and used them to assist in authenticating password resets.”

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 15, 2022

A code signing certificate is used to authenticate the identity of a software developer or publisher, and it provides cryptographic assurance that a signed piece of software has not been altered or tampered with. The two leaked Nvidia certificates have expired, being valid from 2011 to 2014 and 2015 to 2018.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 9, 2021

CVE-2021-27610 Improper Authentication in SAP NetWeaver ABAP Server and ABAP Platform. An attacker with this authorization can inject malicious code in the source rules and perform remote code execution enabling them to compromise the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the application.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 23, 2022

You can also combine remote services with multifactor authentication. The reason for this is that it took this long to verify the breach had actually taken place. That isn’t all, however. A common ransomware pitfall is leaving remote services unsecured. Provide a limit on password guess attempts for remote desktops.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 3, 2023

It includes features such as Simultaneous Authentication of Equal (SAE), the Dragonfly handshake, simplified setup, better IoT device security, and future proofing. Protection against brute force attacks: WPA3 uses SAE, a new authentication method that protects against attacks on the Wi-Fi network’s password.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The malware utilizes cloud resources for its C2 (command and control) servers, which it accesses via APIs using authentication tokens. CloudSorcerer is a sophisticated cyber-espionage tool used for stealth monitoring, data collection and exfiltration via Microsoft, Yandex and Dropbox cloud infrastructures.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

February 2011: Ross Ulbricht Creates the Silk Road Marketplace “I created Silk Road because I thought the idea for the website itself had value, and that bringing Silk Road into being was the right thing to do. The hidden service gained traction in 2011 and then hit the mainstream when a Gawker article about the site was published.

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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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eSecurity Planet

MAY 24, 2023

The DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) email authentication standard enables email servers to check incoming emails to verify the sender and detect email message alterations. DKIM Fundamentals The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) publishes full information on the DKIM and its standards, which were last updated in 2011.

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