Dark Reading

JULY 21, 2020

Why knowledge-based authentication is leaving federal contact centers vulnerable to an increasingly sophisticated hacker community.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 4, 2020

After verifying my email address, I was asked to pick a strong password and select a form of multi-factor authentication (MFA). The most secure MFA option offered (a one-time code generated by an app like Google Authenticator or Authy) was already pre-selected, so I chose that.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The government experts also ordered to monitor the authentication or identity management services that could be exposed and urged to isolate the systems from any enterprise resources to the greatest degree possible. is an Authentication Bypass issue that resides in the web component of Ivanti ICS 9.x, x and Ivanti Policy Secure.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

An authenticated attacker can exploit the issue to access certain restricted resources. Ivanti will update this knowledge base article as more information becomes available.” The flaw CVE-2024-21893 is a server-side request forgery vulnerability in the SAML component of Connect Secure (9.x, x), Policy Secure (9.x, 20240126.5.xml”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

“I was able to answer the credit report questions successfully, which authenticated me to their system,” Turner said. That’s because Experian does not offer any type of multi-factor authentication options on consumer accounts. But now he’s wondering what else he could do to prevent another account compromise.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

Clearly, Experian found it simpler to respond this way, rather than acknowledging the problem and addressing the root causes (lazy authentication and abhorrent account recovery practices). It’s also worth mentioning that reports of hijacked Experian.com accounts persisted into late 2022.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

When it comes to providing a trusted customer environment, banks are typically better at resolving problems stemming from non-predictive authentication and fraud than preventing them. Based on the level of information the customer is requesting, the bank representative may ask a number of challenge questions.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2021

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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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2020

The flaw could allow unauthenticated network-based attackers to bypass authentication, it has has been rated as critical severity and received a CVSS 3.x x base score of 10. Admins could determine if their installs are vulnerable following the instructions provided by the company in a knowledge base article.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2020

Palo Alto Networks addressed a critical flaw in the PAN-OS of its next-generation firewalls that could allow attackers to bypass authentication. OS ) that powers its next-generation firewalls that could allow unauthenticated network-based attackers to bypass authentication. x base score of 10. . x base score of 10.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2023

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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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 7, 2024

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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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2022

First of all, there was a lack of any knowledge base inside companies and often times the owner of the given SaaS app wasn’t very cooperative.”. But many companies simply shrugged off the NIST protocols. “It It turned out to be very hard for security teams to get control of SaaS applications,” Bin observes. SaaS due diligence.

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Info Source

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Adhering to the strictest global security standards, multiple user authentication options are available from DocuSign. Users can receive authentication via email, access code, phone, SMS or knowledge-based authentication (using public records to confirm the identity of the signer by asking multiple choice questions).

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Related Stories Episode 243: The CSTO is a thing- a conversation with Chris Hoff of LastPass Episode 245: How AI is remaking knowledge-based authentication Episode 244: ZuoRAT brings APT Tactics to Home Networks. . » Click the icon below to listen. MP3 ] | [ Transcript ].

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AIIM

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In North America, e-signatures are based on multiple authentication aspects with a focus on knowledge-based authentication which cannot be applied in EU due to much stricter privacy regulations. The webinar shared a few examples of these four dimensions, including the following.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The final step in validating residents involves answering four so-called “knowledge-based authentication” or KBA questions. Signing up requires an eligible resident to create a free user account at USPS.com, which asks for the resident’s name, address and an email address.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2019

It then asked a series of four security questions — so-called “knowledge-based authentication” or KBA questions designed to see if I can about my recent financial history. This has been the reality for years, and was so well before Equifax announced its big 2017 breach.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 14, 2023

All customers are automatically enrolled in standard support, which includes the customer community, a knowledge base, and a support response time of 2 hours (24×7) via the online portal or phone. Ivanti offers four levels of support: Standard, Premium, Enterprise and Success Squad.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 12, 2018

A knowledge-base that’s understandable and accessible to all staff. On a strong password policy and an authentication process that doesn’t impede your workers. From there, it’s a matter of establishing the right processes, programs, and procedures. Amidst all this, make sure you also focus on the basics.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Do keep in mind that the context here is the impact on identity verification in "a post-breach world" My task is to ensure that the folks at the hearing understand how prevalent breaches are, how broadly they're distributed and the resultant impact on identity verification via knowledge-based authentication.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

It has more than 70 extensions, and a knowledge base with more than 14 million open source components. network traffic captures (Windows network authentication, WiFi WPA-PSK, etc.); In addition, it provides a suite of secure tunneling capabilities, several authentication methods, and configuration options.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2021

I had assumed that they either stole or spoofed a SolarWinds digital certificate, which they then used to authenticate the tainted update. The payload malware: Sunburst, a heavily-obfuscated backdoor. Actually, these attackers went through a lot of effort to first gain deep access inside of SolarWinds’ network.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

I immediately suspected that Experian was still allowing anyone to recreate their credit file account using the same personal information but a different email address, a major authentication failure that was explored in last year’s story, Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do. 9, 2022 and Dec.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2022

You can test your employees’ ability to distinguish authentic email content from fraudulent attachments by mass spear-phishing them. The results will demonstrate the current knowledge base within the organization and whether the employees take cybersecurity seriously.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 10, 2014

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.”

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 20, 2023

Performing a complete scan with authentication, which entails giving valid login credentials, may increase the number of CVE findings identified. Authentication enables the scanner to get access to additional system information to conduct a more comprehensive examination of potential vulnerabilities.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

Dubner said all customers are required to use multi-factor authentication, and that everyone applying for access to its services undergoes a rigorous vetting process. . “We identified a handful of legitimate businesses who are customers that may have experienced a breach,” Dubner said.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

For example, if your bank verifies that you are indeed who you say you are by asking you for your date of birth yet that's appeared in a data breach, how sound is it as a knowledge-based authentication (KBA) attribute?

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2022

Also, I could see no option in my account to enable multi-factor authentication for all logins. We go beyond reliance on personally identifiable information (PII) or a consumer’s ability to answer knowledge-based authentication questions to access our systems,” the statement continues. “We

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Through this platform, companies can also implement a number of cybersecurity measures including multi-factor authentication , biometrics, and device binding to better protect their employees and their data. This platform has been used by a number of prominent companies, including McDonald’s, DoorDash, Wayfair, Pateron, and Twitter.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Provides sender verification and multi-factor authentication for increased security. Improves email security using user authentication techniques , lowering the danger of unauthorized email account access. Cons According to some users, Barracuda’s Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) can cause occasional issues.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2024

Such information could be useful if you were trying to determine the maiden name of someone’s mother, or successfully answer a range of other knowledge-based authentication questions. The reports also list address and phone records for the target’s known relatives and associates.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2021

According to Loreta, the agent sounded surprisingly knowledgeable and professional and didn’t ask Mindaugas for any contact details. “He He told Mindaugas that all he needed to do in order to receive the bonus was to prove his identity by sending the agent his two-factor authentication code,” Loreta told CyberNews.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Part of the solution to this is to give people the controls to do password-based authentication better, for example by using a password manager and enabling 2FA. Let me put this in perspective: assume you're tasked with building a new system which has a requirement for registration and subsequently, authentication.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

So while I'm not going to log in as root or admin on the bottom for a lot of those kinds of scenarios, I absolutely help our clients understand based upon industry knowledge based upon what we see, etc. This is what you should be concerned about. And then there's the flip side of it where I'm not. These are becoming.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

Create dynamic lists, rules, and exceptions with custom workflows, and schedule patches based on advanced rules. Patch histories available for individual machines, endpoint reboot status, and links to relevant vendor knowledge base articles. The suite includes comprehensive IT management, IT automation, and security features.

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