Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The vulnerabilities have been reported to HP by the infosec researchers Nick Bloor, an attacker could chain the three issues to achieve SYSTEM privileges on targeted devices and potentially take over them. The issue does not impact customers who use Active Directory authenticated accounts. ” reads the HP’s advisory.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 30, 2024

As the rules were authorized in late 2023, we shared what we see as the implications for infosec leaders. Implementing zero trust means continuously verifying each user and device that attempts to access company resources, ensuring strict authentication, authorization and validation throughout the user session.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2023

The directive applies to any networking devices — such as firewalls, routers and load balancers — that allow remote authentication or administration. “This is reachable pre-authentication, on every SSL VPN appliance,” French vulnerability researcher Charles Fol tweeted. “Patch your #Fortigate.”

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

I seem to be doing most of that activity now on Mastodon , which appears to have absorbed most of the infosec refugees from Twitter, and in any case is proving to be a far more useful, civil and constructive place to post such things. banks are stiffing account takeover victims. A single bitcoin is trading at around $45,000.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Three […] The post Password Managers Under Attack, Shady Reward Apps on Google Play, Meta Account Center 2FA Bypass appeared first on The Shared Security Show. The post Password Managers Under Attack, Shady Reward Apps on Google Play, Meta Account Center 2FA Bypass appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Jeremy Kirk on Twitter: "Someone is claiming to have the stolen Optus account data for 11.2 optus #auspol #infosec #OptusHack pic.twitter.com/1eCINue2oZ / Twitter". Someone is claiming to have the stolen Optus account data for 11.2 Someone is claiming to have the stolen Optus account data for 11.2 million users.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. Scattered Spider previously targeted telecommunications firms, likely to support its SIM-swapping activities that facilitate account takeovers.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2024

On May 27, a threat group announced the sale of 560 million stolen records from targeted attacks on single-factor authentication users in Snowflake. These threats manifest in various forms, such as account takeovers, unintended publicly available links, malicious applications, and more.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2023

The three-year-old high-severity flaw is a deserialization of untrusted data in Plex Media Server on Windows, a remote, authenticated attacker can trigger it to execute arbitrary Python code. “This issue could not be exploited without first gaining access to the server’s Plex account.” in May 2020. in May 2020.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 24, 2019

One of the most common ways by which malicious actors perpetrate account takeover (ATO) fraud is via password brute forcing attacks. Once they’re in, malicious actors can leverage a compromised business account to steal sensitive information and/or stage secondary attacks. Implement Multi-Factor Authentication.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

According to the investigation, an attacker logged into the old VPN (virtual private network) that DDC used before migrating to a new one using a compromised employee account. Weeks after, the attacker used a test account with administrator privileges to establish persistence in the now-compromised environment.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

infosec #cybersecurity #threatintel #cyber #NFL pic.twitter.com/tl7OWM2Aqf — CyberKnow (@Cyberknow20) February 12, 2022. The BlackByte ransomware gang has already claimed responsibility for the attack by leaking a small number of files it claims to have been stolen. Smart marketing tbh.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Many organizations already have robust authentication solutions in place for their permanent workers. First, a strong and efficient access management and authentication solution should be a strategic choice based on the Zero Trust principles. But the reality is that those solutions might not apply to seasonal workers.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

But infosec thought leaders say that blaming an intern ignores the true roots of the problem, including insufficient credentials policies and access management practices – as evidenced in part by the simplicity of the password itself: “solarwinds123”. Infosec experts similarly chided the company for a lack of strong credentials.

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Webroot

MAY 3, 2022

Think of all the accounts you have with different providers. Your password for each of your accounts needs to be difficult to guess and unpredictable. The best way to prevent unauthorized access to your accounts is to protect and manage them. Passwords have become a common way to access and manage our digital lives.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 31, 2022

Randy is a CISSP and is active in the Central Missouri InfoSec community. Answer: Use multi-factor authentication everywhere (preferably better than what we have now). Randy is a proponent of risk-based, layered security measures that utilize both preventative and detective approaches to achieve the right solution for the organization.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Here goes: The Rate Limits and (Some) Pricing is Different The launch blog post for the authenticated API explained the original rationale behind the $3.50 Other examples included things like scanning customer emails to assess exposure at points where, for example, account takeover was a risk.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2021

This vulnerability is remotely exploitable and does not require authentication of any kind, nor does it require any special knowledge or access to a target environment.” “The attacker only needs to know the server running Exchange and the account from which they want to extract e-mail.” ” wrote Microsoft.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 16, 2023

Similarly, Coinbase’s improper API validation process enabled users to make unlimited cryptocurrency trades between accounts without being detected. Tracking sensitive data usage across authenticated and unauthenticated APIs, and ensuring compliance requirements are met, has become an important aspect for Infosec teams.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2022

provides software and hardware used to issue financial cards, e-passport production, user authentication for those looking to access secure networks or conduct financial transactions, trust certificated for websites, mobile credentials, and connected devices. Entrust Corp. Entrust security incident dated June 18th.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

It's the address on Aadhaar's Twitter account , it's the first result on a Google search and time and time again, it's promoted as the site people should go to before doing anything else Aadhaar related. But getting onto the title of this section, the page in question is the E-Aadhaar authentication page (also geo-blocked).

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2019

Yesterday I was using Twitter when I noticed the following alert issued by the account managed by the US Cyber Command : USCYBERCOM has discovered active malicious use of CVE-2017-11774 and recommends immediate #patching.

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DoublePulsar

JULY 25, 2023

MobileIron aka EPMM, a widely used Mobile Device Management product from Ivanti, has a crucial flaw — it has an API endpoint which requires no authentication whatsoever. infosec #mobileiron #ivanti / Twitter" If you are using Ivanti MobileIron, check out the Ivanti support forum now.#infosec

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 3, 2025

Consent phishing deceives users into granting a third-party SaaS application access to their account, enabling it to retrieve sensitive information or act on their behalf. In the past few years, OAuth has become a widely adopted authentication method due to the surge in the number of SaaS applications used in the workplace.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

We constantly see new threats, and threat vectors, come and go; which puts a tremendous strain on the InfoSec teams that have to protect organizations and businesses from these threats. Active Lock protects individual files by requiring step-up authentication until the threat is cleared. Read more here. Read more here.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 28, 2021

The cardholder is a client of the issuing financial institution and may have an account directly linked to the payment card. They are a third-party system and not the bank where the merchant has an account. This triggers the event or flow of payment authentication and processing with various entities involved in the process.

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 29, 2022

Defining “storytelling” in an InfoSec context Inspiration - We the People: Democratizing Security “Storytelling” is a word that you will hear frequently within Duo’s creative team — now part of a Brand & Strategy unit for Cisco’s rebranded security organization Cisco Secure. . But where to begin?

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The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In this Spotlight edition of the Security Ledger podcast, Rachel Stockton of LastPass * joins us to discuss the myriad of challenges facing companies trying to secure users' online activities, and simple solutions for busting insecure user behaviors to address threats like phishing, account takeover and more.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Incidentally, Lorenzo who wrote that Motherboard piece is a top-notch infosec journo I've worked with many times before and he reported accurately in that piece.) Speaking of which: New self-submitted breach: devkitPro had 1,508 accounts impacted in a data breach last week. 79% were already in @haveibeenpwned.

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Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 29, 2024

It looks like similar techniques were used on Sir Grayson Perry’s stage show , where information was used to identify members of the audience and query details from their social media accounts live on stage. He has been a speaker on the infosec circuit and was one of the keynotes at the inaugural 44CON London security event in 2011.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Spotting and Stopping Persistent Invaders Nation state affiliated threat actors such as FIN6 , NICKEL , and Emissary Panda targeted critical Active Directory assets, notably the (Windows NT Directory Services) NTDS.dit file, the KRBTGT service account, and Active Directory certificates. Rubeus , Mimikatz , etc.)

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

This is how the scammers “fatten the pig” until the right time to “butcher it,” when they take all the money out of the account. Once the victim invests, they will keep pressuring them to pour in more money. What You Can Do. We have considered just a few of the most relevant personal cyber security concerns. Update your software.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. Scattered Spider previously targeted telecommunications firms, likely to support its SIM-swapping activities that facilitate account takeovers.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 29, 2023

In addition, you can take advantage of the OAuth on-behalf-of (OBO) flow to maintain access to the target account, even after the TAP has expired. Read First: Configure a Temporary Access Pass in Azure AD to register Passwordless authentication methods - Microsoft Entra Microsoft identity platform and OAuth2.0

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The Security Ledger

MAY 8, 2019

Also: we continue our series on life after the password by speaking to Ian Paterson, the CEO of behavioral authentication vendor Plurilock. Also: we continue our series on life after the password by speaking to Ian Paterson, the CEO of behavioral authentication vendor Plurilock. The post Episode 145: Read the whole entry. »

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Further evolution of cyberthreats as a response to infosec tools and measures. For instance, we see a new trend emerging in the criminal ecosystem of spyware-based authentication data theft, with each individual attack being directed at a very small number of targets (from single digits to several dozen).

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The current API top ten are Broken Object-Level Authorization , Broken User Authentication , Excessive Data Exposure , Lack of Resources & Rate Limiting , Broken Function-Level Authorization , Mass Assignment , Security Misconfiguration , Injection , Improper Assets Management , and Insufficient Logging & Monitoring.

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