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GAO: After Equifax Breach, KBA No Longer Effective

Data Breach Today

New Report Calls for Other Methods of Authentication at Federal Agencies Some federal agencies inappropriately continue to rely on knowledge-based authentication to prevent fraud and abuse even though this method is no longer trustworthy because so much personal information that's been breached is readily available to fraudsters, a new U.S.

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CISA orders federal agencies to disconnect Ivanti VPN instances by February 2

Security Affairs

The government agency recommends continuing to look for indicators of compromise on any systems connected to—or recently connected to—the affected Ivanti device. is an Authentication Bypass issue that resides in the web component of Ivanti ICS 9.x, An authenticated attacker can exploit the issue to access certain restricted resources.

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E-Verify’s “SSN Lock” is Nothing of the Sort

Krebs on Security

But KrebsOnSecurity recently discovered that this is not the case with all federal government sites built to help you manage your identity online. After verifying my email address, I was asked to pick a strong password and select a form of multi-factor authentication (MFA).

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Rapid7 found a bypass for the recently patched actively exploited Ivanti EPMM bug

Security Affairs

noarch.rpm as per the Ivanti Knowledge Base article 000087042.” However, we found a variation of the same attack that enables a remote attacker to access the API endpoints without authentication.” After reproducing the original vulnerability, we proceeded to apply Ivanti’s hotfix ivanti-security-update-1.0.0-1.noarch.rpm

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Kaseya fixed two of the three Kaseya Unitrends zero-days found in July

Security Affairs

Kaseya Unitrends is a cloud-based enterprise solution that provides affordable, low-maintenance data protection offering to complement existing client backup and recovery solutions. The vulnerabilities include remote code execution and authenticated privilege escalation on the client-side.

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News alert: Badge expands availability of ‘Enroll Once and Authenticate on Any Device’ software

The Last Watchdog

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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FTC Approves COPPA Parental Consent Mechanism Proposal

Hunton Privacy

In its letter to Imperium , the FTC stated that Imperium’s method of knowledge-based authentication (“KBA”) is an acceptable method of obtaining verifiable parental consent as it is “reasonably calculated. to ensure that the person providing consent is the child’s parent.” View the FTC’s letter to Imperium.