Schneier on Security

JANUARY 19, 2023

A group of Swiss researchers have published an impressive security analysis of Threema. As one example, we present a cross-protocol attack which breaks authentication in Threema and which exploits the lack of proper key separation between different sub-protocols. It also said the researchers were overselling their findings.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2024

Researchers discovered an SSH vulnerability, called Terrapin, that could allow an attacker to downgrade the connection’s security. An attacker can trigger the flaw to downgrade the connection’s security implemented by the protocol. Its most notable applications are remote login and command-line execution.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 31, 2022

Here is an overview of the passwords we’re now using – and their respective security limitations: Static passwords. Dynamic passwords need to be securely managed. This refers to parametric, dynamic, recoverable, generated-on demand, pseudo-random passwords that are not stored in an electronic or paper form.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 6, 2021

” Abstract: A master face is a face image that passes face-based identity-authentication for a large portion of the population. Fascinating research: “ Generating Master Faces for Dictionary Attacks with a Network-Assisted Latent Space Evolution.”

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

This is an excerpt from a longer paper. We can and should get the benefits of the cloud while taking security back into our own hands. These ideas, which we’ll refer to in the aggregate as “decoupling,” allow us to rethink both security and privacy. In security this is called Least Privilege.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 26, 2021

As a data-driven, security-focused company, we’ve rounded up our top tips inspired by World Password Day to help you improve your password game. But, unfortunately, we live in a world of constant hacking attempts and security breaches. Password management software also comes in handy when you need a secure way to share passwords.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2018

It is also using contact information you handed over for security purposes and contact information you didn't hand over at all, but that was collected from other people's contact books, a hidden layer of details Facebook has about you that I've come to call "shadow contact information." Here's the research paper.

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Rocket Software

AUGUST 17, 2020

Depending on what industry you’re in, your approach to security may be very different. For some sectors, like finance, security and data protection are top of mind for everything that is done. Financial services organizations typically experience the most data breaches and hacks, which makes security a priority.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2023

Zero trust networking architecture (ZTNA) is a way of solving security challenges in a cloud-first world. To accomplish this, we map out five runtime checks—named Identity Based Segmentation in the paper—that are made at every hop in the network. Encryption in transit provides eavesdropping protection and payload authenticity.

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The Texas Record

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Both local governments and state agencies want to know if they ‘go paperless’ — if they digitize their essential records — can they get rid of the original paper or film copies? for electronic records in general) You have an electronic records security program ( Sec. Adequate technical documentation is kept ( Sec.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

You’ll often see the terms cyber security and information security used interchangeably. In this blog, we explain what information security and cyber security are, the differences between them and how they fit into your data protection practices. What is information security? This is cyber security.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2018

LC4 performs authenticated encryption, and optional header data can be included in the authentication. This paper defines the LC4 encryption and decryption algorithms, analyzes LC4's security, and describes a simple appliance for computing LC4 by hand.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2022

Apple , Google and Microsoft announced this week they will soon support an approach to authentication that avoids passwords altogether, and instead requires users to merely unlock their smartphones to sign in to websites or online services. But Bellovin said much depends on how securely such cloud systems are administered.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Cybersecurity researchers from Kookmin University and the Korea Internet and Security Agency (KISA) discovered an implementation vulnerability in the source code of the Rhysida ransomware. Rhysida ransomware employed a secure random number generator to generate the encryption key and subsequently encrypt the data.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2023

Researchers devised an attack technique, dubbed BrutePrint Attack, that allows brute-forcing fingerprints on smartphones to bypass authentication. Researchers have devised an attack technique, dubbed BrutePrint, that allows to brute-force fingerprints on smartphones to bypass user authentication.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 7, 2022

This is a really interesting paper that discusses what the authors call the Decoupling Principle: The idea is simple, yet previously not clearly articulated: to ensure privacy, information should be divided architecturally and institutionally such that each entity has only the information they need to perform their relevant function.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 30, 2023

It’s neither hard nor expensive : Unlike password authentication, which requires a direct match between what is inputted and what’s stored in a database, fingerprint authentication determines a match using a reference threshold. Research paper. Other news articles.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Perhaps it’s time we finally push for the widespread adoption of two-factor authentication. What is two-factor authentication? This may sound complicated, but anyone with a bank card has been using two-factor authentication for years. Authentication factor examples. Why you should use two-factor authentication.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2022

PACMAN is a novel hardware attack technique that can allow attackers to bypass Pointer Authentication (PAC) on the Apple M1 CPU. The pointer authentication codes (PACs) allow to detect and guard against unexpected changes to pointers in memory. ” reads the research paper published by the researchers.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2021

Related: Why PKI will endure as the Internet’s secure core. Yet electronic signatures do have their security limitations. And PKI , of course, is the behind-the-scenes authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built. Most of us, by now, take electronic signatures for granted.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 15, 2019

Researchers have found several vulnerabilities in the WPA3 Wi-Fi security protocol: The design flaws we discovered can be divided in two categories. The discovered flaws can be abused to recover the password of the Wi-Fi network, launch resource consumption attacks, and force devices into using weaker security groups. News article.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 15, 2022

Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, however, have created a novel hardware attack, which combines memory corruption and speculative execution attacks to sidestep the security feature. Research paper. Also, I don’t know if it also applies to Apple’s new M2 chip.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2023

The first vulnerability is an improper authentication issue on Tapo L503E, an attacker can exploit the issue to impersonate the device during the session key exchange step. Lack of authentication of the smart bulb with the Tapo app, 8.8 Lack of authentication of the smart bulb with the Tapo app, 8.8 ” concludes the paper.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2020

Boffins disclosed a security flaw in Bluetooth, dubbed BIAS, that could potentially be exploited by an attacker to spoof a remotely paired device. It is possible for an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to impersonate a previously paired/bonded device and successfully authenticate without knowing the link key.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 18, 2018

On July 12, 2018, British Prime Minister Theresa May presented her Brexit White Paper, “ The Future Relationship Between the United Kingdom and the European Union ,” (the “White Paper”) to Parliament. Chapter 2 (Security Partnership) explores the relationship relating to security which will differ once the UK exits the EU.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

On January 28, 2021, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published Consultation Paper CP21/3 , “Changes to the SCA-RTS and to the guidance in ‘Payment Services and Electronic Money – Our Approach’ and the Perimeter Guidance Manual” (Consultation Paper). its Perimeter Guidance Manual (PERG). Transaction risk analysis.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2022

Not everyone adopts multi-factor authentication (MFA) to secure their accounts. Many stick with simple username and password combinations despite the weaknesses of this authentication method. Passwords are the most common method of authentication. Passwordless Authentication 101. The Problem with Passwords.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 22, 2024

Counting Down to the EU NIS2 Directive madhav Thu, 05/23/2024 - 05:16 Our recently released 2024 Data Threat Report showed a direct correlation between compliance and cyber security outcomes. Article 21 of the Directive details the security requirements organizations must adhere to, including at least the following: Risk analysis.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Researchers from the security firm Oxeye discovered a critical Remote Code Execution in Spotify’s Backstage (CVSS Score of 9.8). “In an earlier research paper, Oxeye found a vm2 sandbox escape vulnerability that results in remote code execution (RCE) on the hosting machine.” ” continues the advisory.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 8, 2021

Interesting paper: “ Shadow Attacks: Hiding and Replacing Content in Signed PDFs “: Abstract: Digitally signed PDFs are used in contracts and invoices to guarantee the authenticity and integrity of their content. This paper introduces a novel class of attacks, which we call shadow attacks. In 2019, Mladenov et al.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 17, 2021

When It Comes to Software Supply Chain Security, Good Enough Just Isn’t Enough. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) found this to be such a threat that they issued an Emergency Directive ordering federal departments and agencies to disconnect affected devices. Beware of “Good Enough” Software Security.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 26, 2020

The Bluetooth standard includes a legacy authentication procedure and a secure authentication procedure, allowing devices to authenticate to each other using a long term key. Those procedures are used during pairing and secure connection establishment to prevent impersonation attacks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 21, 2018

The paper examines the regulation’s security standards and the capabilities security teams need to comply withthose standards in the face of more hybrid IT environments that encompass both on-premises and multiple cloud services. They are covered in more depth in our White Paper. Internal and External Authentication.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 30, 2019

Data security is a complex subject, and, unfortunately, microservices only add to the complexity. So, in this and my next few blogs, I will share some questions you might want to ask as you go about securing your data in a microservices environment. Data security. Network security. Authentication. Authorization.

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Elie

DECEMBER 20, 2018

This post looks at two-factor authentication adoption in the wild, highlights the disparity of support between the various categories of websites, and illuminates how fragmented the two factor ecosystem is in terms of standard adoption. How prevalent is 2FA authentication? reuse of passwords found in data breaches and phishing attacks.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

Postal Service, the credit bureaus or the Social Security Administration, it’s a good idea to do so for several reasons. Adding multi-factor authentication (MFA) at these various providers (where available) and/or establishing a customer-specific personal identification number (PIN) also can help secure online access.

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