Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

I immediately suspected that Experian was still allowing anyone to recreate their credit file account using the same personal information but a different email address, a major authentication failure that was explored in last year’s story, Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do. 9, 2022 and Dec.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Twitter announced that its users can protect their accounts with 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) even if they don’t have a phone number. Twitter is going to allow its users to protect their accounts with 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) even if they don’t have a phone number. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2020

“In fact, large aggregations of stolen credentials have been around since 2013-2014. Finally, if you haven’t done so lately, mosey on over to twofactorauth.org and see if you are taking full advantage of the strongest available multi-factor authentication option at sites you trust with your data.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

The documents were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser. According to a filing (PDF) by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), the weakness that exposed the documents was first introduced during an application software update in May 2014 and went undetected for years.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

For example, one of the most active accounts targeted in this week’s social network crackdown is the Instagram profile “ Trusted ,” self-described as “top-tier professional middleman/escrow since 2014.” Those databases show Beam was just the 12th user account created on OGUsers back in 2014.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

“I was able to answer the credit report questions successfully, which authenticated me to their system,” Turner said. That’s because Experian does not offer any type of multi-factor authentication options on consumer accounts. But now he’s wondering what else he could do to prevent another account compromise.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2020

One of the most security issues is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-3382. The vulnerability can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to bypass authentication and perform actions with admin privileges on the vulnerable device. ” reads the advisory published by Cisco.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2020

It could be exploited by a remote, authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installs. An attempted attack requires user authentication.” The vulnerability could be exploited by an authenticated attacker to “manipulate certain agent client components.”. An attempted attack requires user authentication.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

VMware has addressed serious vulnerabilities in vRealize Operations for Horizon Adapter, including remote code execution and authentication bypass flaws. “vRealize Operations for Horizon Adapter has an improper trust store configuration leading to authentication bypass. ” continues the advisory. x on Windows.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2020

HPE fixed a remote authentication bypass vulnerability in HPE StoreServ Management Console (SSMC) data center storage management solution. The CVE-2020-7197 flaw is a remote authentication bypass vulnerability that affects HPE 3PAR StoreServ Management and Core Software Media prior to 3.7.0.0. ” reads the advisory. .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

The vulnerability is a post-authentication command injection issue and impacts Nighthawk (R7800) routers running firmware prior to version 1.0.2.60. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2020

Cisco addresses a critical remote code execution (RCE), authentication bypass, and static default credential flaws that could lead to full router takeover. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2020

One of the most severe vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2020-2018 , is an authentication bypass vulnerability in the Panorama context switching feature. This vulnerability does not impact Panorama configured with custom certificates authentication for communication between Panorama and managed devices. The issue received a CVSSv3.1

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

An attacker with this key can successfully authenticate as this user to the FortiSIEM Supervisor.” While the user’s shell is limited to running the /opt/phoenix/ phscripts /bin/ tunnelshell script, SSH authentication still succeeds.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2020

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers observed both the Mirai and Hoaxcalls botnets using an exploit for a post-authentication Remote Code Execution vulnerability in legacy Symantec Web Gateways 5.0.2.8. Experts note that the exploit is only effective for authenticated sessions and the affected devices are End of Life (EOL) from 2012.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

It also provides an authenticated inter-process communication mechanism. Since 2016, Microsoft is urging admins to stop using SMBv1, later versions of the protocol implemented security enhancements, such as encryption, pre- authentication integrity checks to prevent man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks, and insecure guest authentication blocking.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

VFEmail’s Twitter account responded that “external facing systems, of differing OS’s and remote authentication, in multiple data centers are down.” Strangely, not all VMs shared the same authentication, but all were destroyed. The first signs of the attack came on the morning of Feb. Just attack and destroy.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2020

TA505 hacking group has been active since 2014 focusing on Retail and banking sectors. The Netlogon service is an Authentication Mechanism used in the Windows Client Authentication Architecture which verifies logon requests, and it registers, authenticates, and locates Domain Controllers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2020

Cyble has analyzed the data and confirmed its authenticity, it also indexed the record in its data breach monitoring and notification service AmiBreached.com. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2020

A flaw in Cisco Webex Meetings client for Windows could allow local authenticated attackers to gain access to sensitive information. A vulnerability in Cisco Webex Meetings client for Windows, tracked as CVE-2020-3347 , could be exploited by local authenticated attackers to gain access to sensitive information. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

UberEats is an American online food ordering and delivery platform launched by Uber in 2014. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

“An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) when an authenticated attacker sends a specially crafted authentication request. “The security update addresses the vulnerability by changing the way that LSASS handles specially crafted authentication requests.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The Netlogon service is an Authentication Mechanism used in the Windows Client Authentication Architecture which verifies logon requests, and it registers, authenticates, and locates Domain Controllers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2020

The expert discovered that the issue could allow an attacker to force the software to relay an NTLM authentication request to the attacker’s system. This means that the SMB authentication process will leak the system’s username, and NTLMv2 hashed version of the password to the attackers. “An Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2020

2 of these vulnerabilities may be remotely exploitable without authentication, i.e., may be exploited over a network without requiring user credentials. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.” A remote attacker could exploit the CVE-2019-2729 flaw without authentication. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The Netlogon service is an Authentication Mechanism used in the Windows Client Authentication Architecture which verifies logon requests, and it registers, authenticates, and locates Domain Controllers. “An Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Vendors supporting Samba 4.7

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The Netlogon service is an Authentication Mechanism used in the Windows Client Authentication Architecture which verifies logon requests, and it registers, authenticates, and locates Domain Controllers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The CVE-2020-3556 flaw resided in the interprocess communication (IPC) channel of Cisco AnyConnect Client, it can be exploited by authenticated and local attackers to execute malicious scripts via a targeted user. “The vulnerability is due to a lack of authentication to the IPC listener. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

Use Network Level Authentication (NLA). If possible, enable two-factor authentication. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Make RDP available only through a corporate VPN. Use a reliable security solution.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

The list of addressed vulnerabilities includes denial-of-service (DoS), CSRF, FMC authentication bypass, and MitM issues. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2020

Microsoft addressed a Server Message Block (SMB) protocol issue, named SMBleed, that could allow an attacker to leak kernel memory remotely, without authentication. The vulnerability could be chained with the SMBGhost (CVE-2020-0796) to achieve pre-authentication remote code execution. ” continues the post. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2020

The dump was discovered by a Dubai-based cybersecurity firm Rewterz ( @rewterz ) that confirmed its authenticity and the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) is investigating the matter. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2020

One vulnerability could allow an authenticated user with subscriber-level and above permissions to update and modify posts. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The Netlogon service is an Authentication Mechanism used in the Windows Client Authentication Architecture which verifies logon requests, and it registers, authenticates, and locates Domain Controllers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. published a detailed analysis of the flaw.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2020

Authentication to the terminal: All transactions accepted by the terminal are authenticated by the card and, if authorized online, the bank. Authentication to the bank: All the transactions accepted by the bank are authenticated by the card and the terminal. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, EMV).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2020

The flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-8597, was discovered by the expert Ilja Van Sprundel from IOActive, it is a stack buffer overflow issue that is caused by a logical error in the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) packet parser of the pppd software. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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