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Reddit Breach Highlights Limits of SMS-Based Authentication

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What’s interesting about the incident is that it showcases once again why relying on mobile text messages (SMS) for two-factor authentication (2FA) can lull companies and end users into a false sense of security. APP-BASED AUTHENTICATION. As Web site breaches go, this one doesn’t seem too severe.

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Reddit Says Attackers Bypassed SMS-Based Authentication

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Yes, Reddit Was Breached; No, Don't Dump Multifactor Authentication Reddit suffered a data breach in June after attackers managed to bypass its SMS-based two-factor authentication system. User data from 2007 and before was compromised.

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Patch Tuesday, May 2024 Edition

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Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 60 security holes in Windows computers and supported software, including two “zero-day” vulnerabilities in Windows that are already being exploited in active attacks. Emerging in 2007 as a banking trojan, QakBot (a.k.a. Apple has just shipped macOS Sonoma 14.5

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Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

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Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed piece of software has not been altered or tampered with. “Why do I need a certificate? Intel 471 shows akafitis@gmail.com was used to register another O.R.Z. ru in 2008. account on Carder[.]su

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Nation-state actors are exploiting CVE-2020-0688 Microsoft Exchange server flaw

Security Affairs

“Knowledge of a the validation key allows an authenticated user with a mailbox to pass arbitrary objects to be deserialized by the web application, which runs as SYSTEM.” A remote, authenticated attacker could exploit the CVE-2020-0688 vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges on a server and take full control.

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Threat actors scan Internet for Vulnerable Microsoft Exchange Servers

Security Affairs

“Knowledge of a the validation key allows an authenticated user with a mailbox to pass arbitrary objects to be deserialized by the web application, which runs as SYSTEM.” ” Now the popular security researcher Kevin Beaumont reported mass scanning for the CVE-2020-0688 (Microsoft Exchange 2007+ RCE vulnerability).

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LockBit Ransomware operators hit Swiss helicopter maker Kopter

Security Affairs

Kopter Group is Switzerland-based company that was founded in 2007 that was acquired by Leonardo in April 2020. The post LockBit Ransomware operators hit Swiss helicopter maker Kopter appeared first on Security Affairs. The company focuses on the design of small and medium-class civilian helicopters such as the SH09 helicopter.