Tech Republic Security

MARCH 20, 2024

Explore top multi-factor authentication solutions for enhanced security and user authentication. Learn about the benefits and features of leading MFA providers.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The FIDO Alliance found in a survey that as consumers become more familiar with passkeys, they are adopting the technology as a more secure alternative to passwords to authenticate their identities online. The post Best of 2024: FIDO: Consumers are Adopting Passkeys for Authentication appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Penetration Testing

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Veeam recently disclosed a new security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-40715, that impacts Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager. this flaw is classified as a high-severity vulnerability,... The post CVE-2024-40715: Authentication Bypass Threat in Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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Penetration Testing

MAY 20, 2024

GitHub, the world’s leading software development platform, has disclosed a critical security vulnerability (CVE-2024-4985) in its self-hosted GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) product.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Passwordless Authentication without Secrets! divya Fri, 10/11/2024 - 08:54 As user expectations for secure and seamless access continue to grow, the 2024 Thales Consumer Digital Trust Index (DTI) research revealed that 65% of users feel frustrated with frequent password resets.

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Penetration Testing

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Red Hat has issued a critical security advisory warning of an authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2024-7923) in Pulpcore, a content management system used in Red Hat Satellite deployments.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

What should I be most concerned about – and focus on – in 2024? In 2024, we will see more targeted, sophisticated business email compromise (BEC) attacks, including VIP impersonation, vendor email compromise (VEC), and autonomous agents used for malicious purposes. The comments we received were uniformly insightful and helpful.

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Penetration Testing

OCTOBER 26, 2024

A critical authentication bypass vulnerability has been discovered in wpDiscuz, a widely used WordPress plugin with over 80,000 active installations.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 12, 2024

LAS VEGAS – Here’s what I discovered last week here at Black Hat USA 2024 : GenAI is very much in the mix as a potent X-factor in cybersecurity. After strolling the exhibits floor at Black Hat USA 2024 and speaking with the solution providers, I jotted down two categories of cybersecurity advancements: ‘coding level’ and ‘operational level.’

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We drilled down on a few significant developments expected to play out in 2024 and beyond. Each time we use a mobile app or website-hosted service, digital certificates and the Public Key Infrastructure ( PKI ) come into play — to assure authentication and encrypt sensitive data transfers. We met at DigiCert Trust Summit 2023.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

What should I be most concerned about – and focus on – in 2024? In 2024, security teams will need to focus on developing automated tooling to shrink the range of issues that they need to address. Doug Dooley , COO, Data Theorem Dooley 2024 will be the year of full-stack visualization.

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Penetration Testing

APRIL 27, 2024

Security researcher Gabe Kirkpatrick has released proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for CVE-2024-21345, a high-severity Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The “FortiJump” flaw (CVE-2024-47575) has been exploited in zero-day attacks since June 2024, impacting over 50 servers, says Mandiant. A new report published by Mandiant states that the recently disclosed Fortinet FortiManager flaw “FortiJump” CVE-2024-47575 (CVSS v4 score: 9.8)

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2024

GitHub addressed a vulnerability in the GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) that could allow an attacker to bypass authentication. GitHub has rolled out security fixes to address a critical authentication bypass issue, tracked as CVE-2024-4985 (CVSS score: 10.0), in the GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES).

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2024

Juniper Networks released out-of-band security updates to address a critical authentication bypass vulnerability impacting some of its routers. The flaw in Juniper Networks Session Smart Router or Conductor with a redundant peer allows a network-based attacker to bypass authentication and gain full control of the device.

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Penetration Testing

MAY 21, 2024

Tracked as CVE-2024-21683, this flaw could allow authenticated... The post CVE-2024-21683: Atlassian Patches RCE Flaw in Confluence Data Center and Server appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Penetration Testing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Cybersecurity firm RedTeam Pentesting GmbH has disclosed two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2024-6592 and CVE-2024-6593, in WatchGuard’s Authentication Gateway (also known as Single Sign-On Agent) and Single Sign-On Client software, potentially impacting... The post Critical WatchGuard Vulnerabilities Discovered: CVE-2024-6592 and (..)

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2024

VMWare warns to address a remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38814 (CVSS score of 8.8), in its HCX application mobility platform. An authenticated user with non-admin rights could use crafted SQL queries to exploit the flaw and execute unauthorized remote code on the HCX manager. x, and 4.10.x. and 4.10.1.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 5, 2024

5, 2024, CyberNewswire — One Identity proudly announces it has been named a winner in the Hot Company: Privileged Access Management (PAM) category in the 12th annual Cyber Defense Awards by Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), the industrys leading information security magazine. Alisa Viejo, Calif.,

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2024

Taiwanese manufacturer giant ASUS addressed a critical remote authentication bypass vulnerability impacting several router models. ASUS addresses a critical remote authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-3080 (CVSS v3.1 score: 9.8), impacting seven router models. impacting multiple devices.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

SolarWinds addressed a critical remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-28991, in Access Rights Manager. “If exploited, this vulnerability would allow an authenticated user to abuse the service, resulting in remote code execution.” and prior versions. ” reads the advisory.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2024

Shadowserver researchers reported that over 20,000 internet-exposed VMware ESXi instances are affected by the actively exploited flaw CVE-2024-37085. Researchers at the Shadowserver Foundation reported that approximately 20,000 VMware ESXi servers exposed online appear impacted by the exploited vulnerability CVE-2024-37085.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 2, 2024

We are excited to have partnered closely with Microsoft in the co-development of Microsoft Entra ID External Authentication Methods, available in Public Preview May 2024! External Authentication Methods (EAM) enables frictionless integration of Duo’s full security feature set.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Griffin said a follow-up investigation revealed the attackers had used his Gmail account to gain access to his Coinbase account from a VPN connection in California, providing the multi-factor code from his Google Authenticator app. You may also wish to download Google Authenticator to another mobile device that you control.

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Penetration Testing

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Tracked as CVE-2024-55661, this vulnerability could allow authenticated... The post CVE-2024-55661: RCE Vulnerability Discovered in Laravel Pulse Monitoring Tool appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The data began leaking in April 2024, and by summer, it was being sold on the dark web for $3.5 About the essayist: Ambuj Kumar is Co-founder and CEO of Simbian , AI Agents for cybersecurity The post GUEST ESSAY: Massive NPD breach tells us its high time to replace SSNs as an authenticator first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 15, 2024

The other two –- ML-DSA [PDF] (originally known as CRYSTALS-Dilithium) and SLH-DSA [PDF] (initially submitted as Sphincs+)—secure digital signatures, which are used to authenticate online identity. NIST plans to select one or two of these algorithms by the end of 2024. Sllashdot thread.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Sophos researchers warn that ransomware operators are exploiting the critical vulnerability CVE-2024-40711 in Veeam Backup & Replication to create rogue accounts and deploy malware. Attackers accessed targets via VPN gateways lacking multifactor authentication, some of which ran outdated software. ” concludes Sophos.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2024

Progress Software addressed a critical remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-6327, in the Telerik Report Server. Progress Software addressed a critical remote code execution flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-6327 (CVSS score of 9.9), in the Telerik Report Server that can be exploited to compromise vulnerable devices.

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The Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

GitLab has released patches to address a critical flaw impacting Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) that could result in an authentication bypass. The vulnerability is rooted in the ruby-saml library (CVE-2024-45409, CVSS score: 10.0), which could allow an attacker to log in as an arbitrary user within the vulnerable system.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 9, 2024

Ben McCarthy , lead cyber security engineer at Immersive Labs called attention to CVE-2024-20670 , an Outlook for Windows spoofing vulnerability described as being easy to exploit. “Microsoft has updated their backend and notified any customers who have been affected by the credential leakage.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2024

A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for a Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager authentication bypass flaw CVE-2024-29849 is publicly available. Researcher Sina Kheirkha analyzed the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager authentication bypass flaw CVE-2024-29849 and a proof of concept exploit for this issue.

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2024

Microsoft warns that ransomware gangs are exploiting the recently patched CVE-2024-37085 flaw in VMware ESXi flaw. Microsoft researchers warned that multiple ransomware gangs are exploiting the recently patched vulnerability CVE-2024-37085 (CVSS score of 6.8) The flaw is an authentication bypass vulnerability in VMware ESXi.

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Penetration Testing

OCTOBER 3, 2024

A high-severity vulnerability, CVE-2024-9313 ((CVSS 8.8)), has been discovered in Authd, an authentication daemon used for secure identity and access management in Ubuntu machines.

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Penetration Testing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

OpenStack’s Ironic project, which provisions bare metal machines, has been found vulnerable to a critical security flaw (CVE-2024-44082) that could allow authenticated users to exploit unvalidated image data.

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Penetration Testing

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

IBM has issued a critical security advisory for its webMethods Integration Server, revealing multiple vulnerabilities that could allow authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands, escalate privileges, and access sensitive files....

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 11, 2024

Related: Passwordless workpace long way off However, as users engage with more applications across multiple devices, the digital security landscape is shifting from passwords and password managers towards including passwordless authentication, such as multi-factor authentication (MFA), biometrics, and, as of late, passkeys.

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