Schneier on Security

JANUARY 19, 2023

We present seven different attacks against the protocol in three different threat models. As one example, we present a cross-protocol attack which breaks authentication in Threema and which exploits the lack of proper key separation between different sub-protocols. It also said the researchers were overselling their findings.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

In Threat Modelling Cloud Platform Services by Example: Google Cloud Storage Ken Wolstencroft of NCC presents a threat model for Google Cloud Storage, and Id like to take a look at it to see what we can learn. T02 Guessing of Google Cloud Platform credentials" is an action, T04 Authenticated access to Google Cloud Storage bucket is an impact.

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Daniel Miessler

MARCH 10, 2022

People are starting to get the fact that texts (SMS) are a weak form of multi-factor authentication (MFA). It might have been a text, or it could have been something “strong”, like a mobile authenticator app like Google Authenticator or Authy. It completely changes how authentication is done.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 26, 2024

From the humble beginnings of legacy authentication mechanisms to today's sophisticated technologies, the journey of user authentication has been a captivating evolution marked by relentless innovation. The post From Past to Present: User Authentication’s Evolution and Challenges appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 25, 2024

Duo’s Risk-Based Authentication (RBA) helps solve this by adapting MFA requirements based on the level of risk an individual login attempt poses to an organization. Risky authentications are stepped-up, and users are required to authenticate with a more secure factor. Will users get blocked?

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

The KCM process is fairly simple: the employee uses the dedicated lane and presents their KCM barcode or provides the TSA agent their employee number and airline. Various forms of ID need to be presented while the TSA agent’s laptop verifies the employment status with the airline.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 12, 2025

Author/Presenter: Christophe Tafani-Dereeper Our sincere appreciation to BSidesLV , and the Presenters/Authors for publishing their erudite Security BSidesLV24 content. Originating from the conferences events located at the Tuscany Suites & Casino ; and via the organizations YouTube channel.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

At the end of 2023, malicious hackers learned that many companies had uploaded sensitive customer records to accounts at the cloud data storage service Snowflake that were protected with little more than a username and password (no multi-factor authentication needed). million customers.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Only 33 percent consistently use two-factor authentication (2FA). When it comes to protecting themselves and their devices, few are practicing the basics: •Only 21 percent use email security software. Only 28 percent don’t use repeated passwords•Only 20 percent use a password manager.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

VMware disclosed a critical bypass vulnerability in VMware Cloud Director Appliance that can be exploited to bypass login restrictions when authenticating on certain ports. “VMware Cloud Director Appliance contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in case VMware Cloud Director Appliance was upgraded to 10.5

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 22, 2022

It seems that researchers just realized how serious it was (and is): Like EternalBlue, CVE-2022-37958, as the latest vulnerability is tracked, allows attackers to execute malicious code with no authentication required. Microsoft fixed CVE-2022-37958 in September during its monthly Patch Tuesday rollout of security fixes.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In February, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about a novel cybercrime service that helped attackers intercept the one-time passwords (OTPs) that many websites require as a second authentication factor in addition to passwords. That is true two-factor authentication: Something you have, and something you know (and maybe also even something you are).

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 22, 2025

Typically, the attacker collects authentic media samples of their target, including still images, videos, and audio clips, to train the deep learning model. The more training data used, the more authentic the deepfake appears. Perform incident response: Rapidly address threats before they escalate into an enterprise breach.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Available now in all paid Duo subscriptions The launch of Duo Mobile in the early 2010s changed how businesses enabled secure authentication. Other means of authentication outside of smartphones — hardware tokens, phone call authentication, SMS, etc. have proven to be either antiquated, expensive or vulnerable.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 15, 2025

15, 2025, CyberNewswire — Quantum computing is set to revolutionize technology, but it also presents a significant security risk for financial institutions. Today, the company offers mobile-first software authentication and hardware authenticators trusted by major European banks. Prague, Czech Republic, Jan.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Darren Guccione, CEO and Co-Founder at Keeper Security, emphasized the importance of strong authentication and access controls: "BEC and other phishing attacks thrive on weak authentication and poor access controls.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

One piece of evidence to support this hypothesis is the low adoption of a basic security control that protects against identity-based attacks - multi-factor authentication (MFA). Add to this, the risks of weak authentication factors such as SMS one-time passcodes and dormant or inactive accounts.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Of those malicious apps, 5,200 could subvert one of the strongest security practices available today, called multifactor authentication, by prying into basic text messages sent to a device. Instead, they present a modern wrapper on a classic form of theft: Phishing. This does not make multifactor authentication useless.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 17, 2024

The event not only showcases athletic prowess but also presents a significant challenge for cybersecurity professionals. It is essential to verify the authenticity of sources before clicking on links or providing personal information. As the 2024 Olympics approach, the world's eyes will turn to Paris.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Two security flaws found in Xerox VersaLink MFPs could allow hackers to capture authentication credentials and move laterally through enterprise networks and highlight the often-overlooked cyber risks that printers and other IoT devices present to organizations.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 21, 2022

The researchers who performed the assessment believe the same critical vulnerabilities are present in other Micodus tracker models. This is a dangerous vulnerability: An assessment from security firm BitSight found six vulnerabilities in the Micodus MV720 , a GPS tracker that sells for about $20 and is widely available.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Actually, I'll rephrase that: because he was a normal guy; he's not normal anymore because yesterday I carved out some time to give him an early Christmas present: Today I spent an hour getting a mate into @1Password. Not upset, that was still a great value Christmas present, but this is, well, literally twice as great value!

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 29, 2023

Pwned Passwords is presently requested 5 and a half billion times each month to help organisations prevent people from using known compromised passwords. Enable multi-factor authentication where supported, at least for your most important services (email, banking, social, etc.)

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Enter Two-Factor Authentication, or 2FA for short. It’s a security method that requires you to present not one but two forms of ID before granting you access. Different Flavors of 2FA Ah, variety is the spice of life, and when it comes to Two-Factor Authentication, the flavors abound. So how do you beef up your digital fortress?

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NetSpi Executives

MARCH 12, 2025

Michelle Eggers and David Bryan Presenting their talk. This year at SHARE, NetSPI presented two notable talks. Titled, Mainframe Blackbox Network Pentesting , the presentation explored various vulnerabilities encountered during past mainframe penetration tests. Philip Young (right) presenting his talk with Chad Rikansrud (left).

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 26, 2022

To do so, they ask you to perform a form of Google authentication in which, to confirm your identity, you need to provide them with a number that will be sent to your phone by either text or voice message. The FBI recently warned the public that many people are still falling prey to a Google Voice scam that the FTC warned about months ago.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Instead of traditional methods that rely on storing and matching biometrics, SenseCrypt eID utilizes acts of encryption and decryption for registration and authentication, with no public/private keys stored anywhere. This is achieved through the generation of Face Certificates for specific purposes, such as login, eKYC, and more.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2025

OPERATIONAL MANUALS AND DECEPTION STRATEGIES As further evidence of the increasing professionalization of this illicit sector, Meridian Group reports the publication of informational content designed to guide the proper use of EDR services, presented as a detailed guide on how to correctly complete and unlawfully submit the requests.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2025

In a SIM-swapping attack, crooks transfer the targets phone number to a device they control and intercept any text messages or phone calls to the victim’s device including one-time passcodes for authentication and password reset links sent via SMS.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 19, 2020

We demonstrate how attackers can apply split-second phantom attacks remotely by embedding phantom road signs into an advertisement presented on a digital billboard which causes Tesla’s autopilot to suddenly stop the car in the middle of a road and Mobileye 630 to issue false notifications.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2020

7, 2020, the NSA said “Russian state-sponsored malicious cyber actors are exploiting a vulnerability in VMware Access and VMware Identity Manager products, allowing the actors access to protected data and abusing federated authentication.” 3, and said it learned about the flaw from the NSA. ” Indeed, the NSA’s Dec.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 3, 2025

Six months of meetings and presentations led nowhere. I learned this lesson the hard way early in my career when I presented what I thought was an airtight case for a new endpoint security solution. Have you briefed key influencers one-on-one before group presentations? Have standard communication tasks been completed?

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Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2022

Apple , Google and Microsoft announced this week they will soon support an approach to authentication that avoids passwords altogether, and instead requires users to merely unlock their smartphones to sign in to websites or online services. “I worry about forgotten password recovery for cloud accounts.”

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NetSpi Technical

JANUARY 8, 2025

However, if you just use the command as written, it will actually authenticate to the AZ CLI with the Entra ID user that is running the notebook code. Note that if the AML user has not already authenticated to the AML compute resource, they may be prompted to authenticate. to do your data exfiltration. on YouTube.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 22, 2025

Once the victim accepts the invitation, the attackers ask for remote control access to the individual's computer under the guise of technical support or presentation assistance. Victims are sent unsolicited invitations to join Zoom calls, often via links in phishing emails or messages.

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Bleeping Computer

MAY 21, 2023

Researchers at Tencent Labs and Zhejiang University have presented a new attack called 'BrutePrint,' which brute-forces fingerprints on modern smartphones to bypass user authentication and take control of the device. [.]

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 11, 2020

A domain controller is a server that responds to security authentication requests in a Windows environment, and a compromised domain controller can give attackers the keys to the kingdom inside a corporate network. “What’s worse is that there is not a full fix available.”

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