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Hundreds of millions of Android users exposed to hack due to CVE-2020-8913

Security Affairs

Hundreds of millions of Android users are potentially exposed to the risk of hack due to the use of Android Play Core Library versions vulnerable to CVE-2020-8913. The CVE-2020-8913 flaw is a local, arbitrary code execution vulnerability that resides exists in the SplitCompat.install endpoint in Android’s Play Core Library.

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API Security 101 for Developers: How to Easily Secure Your APIs

ForAllSecure

Or, a delivery app could use the API to calculate the best route between two locations. Broken Authentication and Session Management Authentication is the process of verifying the identity of a user or system. Session management is the process of managing user sessions once they are authenticated.

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

For example, organizations can re-package video libraries, songs, research, and course material for different audiences – customers, researchers, academics, students, and so on; and they can monetize the content via CaaS. Blockchain, Provenance, and Authentic Information. Customer Data Platforms (CDP). One use case is supply chains.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. The Department of Justice, have submitted letters to the Library of Congress who manages those exemptions.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. The Department of Justice, have submitted letters to the Library of Congress who manages those exemptions.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Going Passwordless

ForAllSecure

But this method of authentication is flawed; either hashed or hashed and salted, usernames and passwords can still be stolen and reused. Vamosi: Identity -- I’m talking specifically about authentication and to some degree its follow-on authorization -- is one of the most important, yet least talked about aspects of security.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Behavioral Biometrics

ForAllSecure

So we include other telemetry that seeks to authenticate that the entity logging in is who they say they are. Without a basic ability to authenticate these characters, there’d be no drama, no romance, no tragedy. So that’s why you need multi factor authentication. Think about it. And important.