Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Decision Sparks Concerns That Twitter Accounts Will Be Less Secure Twitter says it will turn off SMS second-factor authentication for all but paying customers starting March 20 in a decision provoking concerns that many customers will be less secure than before. of active Twitter accounts have activated second-factor authentication.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Descope to Help Developers Make Authentication Part of Application Build Process The founding team behind SOAR vendor Demisto has started a passwordless authentication and user management platform company that caters to the developer community.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 19, 2023

Beyond Identity's Husnain Bajwa on a Solution That Supports Zero Trust Architecture Identity is more important than ever in today's "work from anywhere" world where the need for secure authentication has become paramount.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Much more effective authentication is needed to help protect our digital environment – and make user sessions smoother and much more secure. Underscoring this trend, Uber was recently hacked — through its authentication system. The best possible answer is coming from biometrics-based passwordless, continuous authentication.

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KnowBe4

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I frequently write about authentication, including PKI, multi-factor authentication (MFA), password managers, FIDO, Open Authentication, and biometrics. I have written dozens of articles on LinkedIn and have presented during many KnowBe4 webinars about different authentication subjects.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 7, 2021

Joni Brennan of Canadian ID Council on How IAM Capabilities Must Evolve "Multisectoral" authentication can help to ensure that government benefits are provided to the right recipients, says Joni Brennan, president of the Digital ID & Authentication Council of Canada.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Signal has had the ability to manually authenticate another account for years. iMessage is getting it : The feature is called Contact Key Verification, and it does just what its name says: it lets you add a manual verification step in an iMessage conversation to confirm that the other person is who their device says they are.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 12, 2023

Broadcom's Mary Ann Furno on Authentication Changes, How Orgs Adapt to Challenges Network boundaries have dissipated while changes in regulation and customer approaches to trust now require more advanced authentication and the ability to treat each authentication in relation to its specific risk level.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 3, 2022

MFA Plus Patch Management and Backups Can Prevent Cyber Incidents A top federal regulatory official urged financial institutions to implement multifactor authentication for all nonpublic systems, telling an audience of financial executives that a majority of breaches could be avoided or mitigated through basic cybersecurity controls.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 21, 2023

80% Growth & Turning a Profit in 2022 Set Up Yubico Well While SPACs Have Struggled Hardware-based authentication vendor Yubico plans to go public at an $800 million valuation by merging with a special purpose acquisition company.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Seth Godin wrote an article about a surprisingly common vulnerability: programmers leaving authentication credentials and other secrets in publicly accessible software code: Researchers from security firm GitGuardian this week reported finding almost 4,000 unique secrets stashed inside a total of 450,000 projects submitted to PyPI, the official code (..)

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 17, 2022

Okta's Sean Frazier on Securing the Supply Chain, Software Development Life Cycle Interest in passwordless authentication architecture continues to grow among U.S. government agencies and departments as they embrace more modern approaches to identity and access management, says Sean Frazier, federal chief security officer at Okta.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 16, 2021

Stresses Need for MFA, Stronger Access Controls The FFIEC has issued updated guidance advising banks to use stronger access controls and multifactor authentication. Some experts call the update "long overdue."

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Data Breach Today

MAY 4, 2021

Strategist Coby Montoya Discusses Leveraging Behavioral Biometrics to Fight Fraud With consumers relying more heavily on e-commerce during the pandemic and beyond, leveraging behavioral biometrics for authentication is an effective strategy, says Coby Montoya, a fraud-fighting and authentication strategist at a financial company.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This dynamic adds extra urgency to authentication. Tom Scontras of Yubico talks about how the pharma sector approaches authentication. It's no secret: As pharmaceutical companies develop new health treatments, adversaries seek to steal or sabotage their intellectual property.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Security & ease of use: It is one thing for non-healthcare entities to debate these merits of new authentication in solutions. Tom Scontras of Yubico talks about how healthcare approaches authentication. But in healthcare, where the decisions directly impact patient safety, the stakes are critical.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This traditional authentication method is challenging to get rid of, mostly because it’s so common. And for businesses, transitioning to new authentication solutions can be expensive and time-consuming. It supports standards that make implementing newer, stronger authentication methods possible for businesses.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Twitter is having intermittent problems with its two-factor authentication system: Not all users are having problems receiving SMS authentication codes, and those who rely on an authenticator app or physical authentication token to secure their Twitter account may not have reason to test the mechanism.

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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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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 27, 2023

FIDO Alliance's Hulka on Why Customers and Providers Like Payment Confirmation Payment regulations in Europe have forced retailers to implement strong authentication that's phishing-resistant and facilitates more customer understanding, says FIDO Alliance's Christina Hulka.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 19, 2020

Implementing an adaptive, risk-based authentication process for remote system access is proving effective as more staff members work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, says Ant Allan, a vice president and analyst at Gartner.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 25, 2022

2 Atlassian Products Affected: Jira and Jira Service Management Australian software firm Atlassian has issued fixes for a critically rated vulnerability in its Jira software that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely bypass authentication protections in place. Both Jira and Jira Service Management are vulnerable to this bug.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Keynotes for FIDO, Google and Yubico Discuss Remaking MFA, Next Steps for Passkeys Multifactor authentication was supposed to be the standard, but the sharp rise in highly successful MFA bypass attacks shows the industry needs to go further in verifying identities.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

Cisco NFV Infrastructure Software Users Urged to Patch Immediately Cisco has released an urgent software update to fix a critical authentication bug that can allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and log in to an affected device as an administrator.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

I currently have over 450 accounts that use passwords combined with a variety of two-factor authentication methods. Related: How the Fido Alliance enables password-less authentication. Only a dozen or so of my accounts get authenticated via self-hosted services. Sharing protocols.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 15, 2023

The World Wide Web Consortium today announced a standardization milestone for a new browser capability that helps to streamline user authentication and enhance payment security during Web checkout. Customer authentication For the past 15 years, e-commerce has increased as a percentage of all retail sales.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 26, 2021

Streamlining and Enhancing Authentication for the Workforce Many organizations have updated the authentication process for customers to help ensure frictionless transactions. Now, some are starting to take similar steps to streamline and enhance authentication of their employees - especially those working remotely.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 26, 2020

Doing authentication well is vital for any company in the throes of digital transformation. Related: Locking down ‘machine identities’ At the moment, companies are being confronted with a two-pronged friction challenge, when it comes to authentication. We spoke at RSA 2020. And that’s not an easy task.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 20, 2022

How to activate multifactor authentication everywhere. The impact of not having multifactor authentication (MFA) activated for all users is now well known by enterprises. The challenge of multifactor authentication everywhere. Variety of a user’s authentication journey…. Variety of a user’s authentication journey….

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2023

Cisco is aware of attacks conducted by Akira ransomware threat actors targeting Cisco ASA VPNs that are not configured for multi-factor authentication. “This highlights the importance of enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) in VPN implementations. . ” reads a post published by Cisco PSIRT. 200 and 162.35.92[.]242

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Company's Action Follows Similar Move by Google Nest Amazon's Ring is mandating the use of two-factor authentication for all users, a move designed to help stop creepy takeovers of the web-connected home security cameras. A passcode will be sent to a user's email address or by SMS.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 1, 2022

FIDO2 multi-factor authentication systems are not susceptible to these attacks, because they are tied to a physical computer. .” Calling the target, pretending to be part of the company, and telling the target they need to send an MFA request as part of a company process.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2023

Google announced that its Authenticator app for Android and iOS now supports Google Account synchronization. Google announced that its Google Authenticator app for both iOS and Android now supports Google Account synchronization that allows to safely backup users one-time codes to their Google Account. ” reads the announcement.

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