Krebs on Security

AUGUST 28, 2020

Sendgrid’s parent company Twilio says it is working on a plan to require multi-factor authentication for all of its customers, but that solution may not come fast enough for organizations having trouble dealing with the fallout in the meantime. Image: Wikipedia. ”

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

To wrap up our 2024 year-end roundtable, we turn our attention to new technologies and trends that are emerging to help bridge the gaps. Our research reveals 69% of breaches are rooted in inadequate authentication and 78% of organizations have been targeted by identity-based attacks.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

While initially popularized in entertainment and satire, cybercriminals now weaponize this technology for fraud, identity theft, and corporate deception. Misinformation and market manipulation : Deepfake videos of CEOs or government officials making false statements can manipulate stock prices or incite public panic.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2020

The Blacklist Alliance provides technologies and services to marketing firms concerned about lawsuits under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), a 1991 law that restricts the making of telemarketing calls through the use of automatic telephone dialing systems and artificial or prerecorded voice messages.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

While Microsoft’s Bing only has about 4% of the search engine market share , crooks are drawn to it as an alternative to Google. In this blog post, we take a look at how criminals are abusing Bing and stay under the radar at the same time while also bypassing advanced security features such as two-factor authentication.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 10, 2020

Poorly implemented authentication can also lead to network breaches and compliance headaches. Devolutions was established a decade ago and fills a gap in the market. Each connection needs to be authenticated and privileges enforced. It can also enforce two-factor authentication. That’s our goal.”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Lumen Technologies Inc. “Depending on the scope of an attack, this could impact individual customers, geographic market areas, or potentially the [Lumen] backbone,” Korab continued. This is the nature of a threat vector recently removed by a Fortune 500 firm that operates one of the largest Internet backbones.

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2022

Therefore, strong authentication methods are needed. Therefore, strong authentication methods are needed. Therefore, strong authentication methods are needed to improve security without hindering user convenience. What is Strong Authentication?

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Virtual reality (VR) technology has transformed how we experience digital environments. This technology simulates environments with striking realism, providing a highly immersive experience for users, and triggering their visual and auditory senses so they feel that they are truly in the moment in a virtual world.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 28, 2023

Authentication-related attacks grew in 2022, taking advantage of outdated, password-based authentication systems, according to a study commissioned by HYPR, a passwordless multifactor authentication (MFA) provider based in the US.

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SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

The Telegram black market: what’s on offer After reviewing phishers’ Telegram channels that we detected, we broke down the services they promoted into paid and free. Legitimate services use one-time passwords as a second authentication factor. This makes it easy for our cyberthreat detection technology to discover them.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Gartner analyst Ruggero Contu noted that security risks are becoming external: the software supply chain , the public cloud , the trading of breached data, and IoT and operational technology (OT) are all threats outside of traditional perimeter security. Security analytics, intelligence and triggers. A distributed identity fabric.

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Joseph Steinberg

MARCH 14, 2022

The cybersecurity term “secure workloads” seems to be gaining a lot of traction in marketing materials lately. Technologies to prevent lateral moves between workloads – preventing a party who has access to one workload from leveraging that access in some fashion to gain access to another workload.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 6, 2019

Enable two-factor authentication for all important accounts whenever possible. Do your best to disable the "secret questions" and other backup authentication mechanisms companies use when you forget your password­ -- those are invariably insecure.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

After a good start, the Internet-enabled, technological revolution we are living through has hit some bumps in the road. To celebrate Independence Day we want to draw your attention to five technologies that could improve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness on the Internet. Passwordless authentication. Onion networking.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 2, 2021

What is Modern Authentication and Its Role in Achieving Zero Trust Security? The evolving business and technology landscape and the need for secure, yet convenient, ways of logging into applications are driving the quest for more effective authentication. From static authentication…. Why do you need modern authentication?

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

This deal reads like to the epilogue to a book titled The First 20 Years of the Supremely Lucrative Antivirus Market. NortonLifeLock and Avast appear to be betting on the next iteration of the huge and longstanding consumer antivirus market. So NortonLifeLock has acquired Avast for more than $8 billion. billion in 2016, for instance.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This category of awards ranks the worlds top 50 software education products based on authentic reviews from more than 100 million G2 users. ” G2s Best Software Awards rank the worlds best software companies and products based on verified user reviews and publicly available market presence data. Cary, NC, Feb.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 27, 2025

stock markets took a sharp nosedive, with the S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Dow Jones all shedding significant points within hours of opening. A groundbreaking announcement from Chinese AI company DeepSeek, which unveiled a major technological leap that threatens to upend the competitive balance in AI innovation. This morning, U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

BIMI essentially is a carrot-on-a-stick mechanism designed to incentivize e-mail marketers to proactively engage in suppressing email spoofing. That’s because gadgets that bear the Matter logo are more readily available than ever. “Millions of Matter devices have been provisioned and are out in the market,” he noted. identification.”

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 27, 2025

Assistive technologies such as screen readers, magnifiers, and voice assistants are terrific, but these tools are cold comfort when a website's design doesn't support them. MFA is a double-edged sword While essential for secure access, multi-factor authentication (MFA) creates additional barriers for users with disabilities.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2023

Experts warn that decommissioned medical infusion pumps sold via the secondary market could expose Wi-Fi configuration settings. The sale of decommissioned medical infusion pumps through the secondary market may lead to the potential exposure of Wi-Fi configuration settings. ” reads the analysis published by Rapid7. .

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This cutting-edge innovation combines Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)* — designed to withstand the security threats posed by future quantum computing—with the trusted SSL technology that secures websites worldwide. Unlike other solutions available in the market, the QR codes generated do not contain any biometric data.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2022

Security remains an added expense that isn’t easy to market, especially when third-party software solutions have been so widely adopted. Second, the design of security solutions struggled to scale up properly or adapt to the technological changes in the industry, especially in disaggregated compute networks. About the essayist.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2018

I asked if this notice had been sent to everyone, and inquired whether ShareFile offers any form(s) of multi-factor authentication options that customers could use to supplement the security of passwords. We did not enforce a password reset on accounts that are using more stringent authentication controls [emphasis added].

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 4, 2023

So, let’s push aside the marketing fluff, and define clearly, concisely, and precisely what the terms Zero Trust and Zero Trust Network Architecture mean, what they share in common, and how they are different. Because the attacker may be listening to the data moving across the network, all traffic must be encrypted.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

Phishers are enjoying remarkable success using text messages to steal remote access credentials and one-time passcodes from employees at some of the world’s largest technology companies and customer support firms. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 6, 2022

The global threat intelligence market size was estimated at $10.9 The market offers many solutions, from free online programs to corporate software. The technology uses the steganography method. About the essayist: Julia Demyanchuk is the head of marketing at G-71 Inc. billion in 2020 and will grow to $16.1

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

wireless carriers today detailed a new initiative that may soon let Web sites eschew passwords and instead authenticate visitors by leveraging data elements unique to each customer’s phone and mobile subscriber account, such as location, customer reputation, and physical attributes of the device. The four major U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 27, 2022

Such consolidation across markets is good news for customers and vendors alike in terms of market growth and maximizing security investments. Going through an M&A is highly risky business due in large part to the potential impact on the market, valuation, shareholders, business partners, etc.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 3, 2022

At RSA Conference 2022 , which takes place next week in San Francisco, advanced technologies to help companies implement zero trust principals will be in the spotlight. Lots of innovation has come down the pike with respect to imbuing zero trust into two pillars of security operations: connectivity and authentication.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2023

The Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) standard for email authentication is adopted by all U.S. DMARC addresses weaknesses in other email authentication standards to check for misleading “From” fields in emails and to improve tracking of potential spoofing campaigns. How Does DMARC Work?

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Part of the solution to this is to give people the controls to do password-based authentication better, for example by using a password manager and enabling 2FA. This is where we need to recognise that decisions around things like auth schemes go well beyond technology merits alone. I dropped out of the discussion at that point.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 14, 2023

Passkeys can use a range of passwordless authentication methods, from fingerprint, face and iris recognition to screen lock pins, smart cards, USB devices and more. ” authID’s multi-factor authentication (MFA) solutions included biometric authentication such as fingerprint recognition and facial recognition.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Go Beyond FIDO Standards: Best Practices When Deploying FIDO Security Keys in Enterprise madhav Thu, 02/20/2025 - 06:22 Initially designed for the consumer market, the FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) standard aims to replace passwords with more secure authentication methods for online services. While recent versions, like FIDO2.1,

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 12, 2025

The FIDO (Fast Identity Online) standard has emerged as the gold standard in authentication technology, providing a robust framework for secure and convenient access. The newly introduced SafeNet eToken Fusion NFC PIV enables passwordless, phishing-resistant authentication across a wide range of devices.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 7, 2024

The new Badge Partner Program further accelerates the adoption and integration of Badge’s privacy-preserving authentication, enabling even more users to benefit from seamless MFA experiences across any device or application without storing user secrets or private keys. “We

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