The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

However, there’s still a long way to go to achieve deep interoperability of interconnected services in a way that preserves privacy and is very secure. Matter works much the way website authentication and website traffic encryption gets executed. That’s because gadgets that bear the Matter logo are more readily available than ever.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 19, 2022

One new tactic hackers have been using is to steal cookies from current or recent web sessions to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). Even cloud infrastructures rely on cookies to authenticate their users. Browsers allow users to maintain authentication, remember passwords and autofill forms. HttpOnly, Secure attribute).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In the digital age, authentication is paramount to a strong security strategy. Which are the challenges of user authentication? In the digital age, authentication is paramount to a strong security strategy. User authentication seems easy, but there are inherent challenges to be aware of. User Authentication.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This neglect is not only a threat to personal data, but also a threat to corporate security. According to our survey, the majority of consumers (77 percent) are confident they can identify, and report suspected malicious cyber activity despite general apathy toward proactively securing their devices and personal data. Confidence gap.

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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. The results we present demonstrate that it is possible to obtain a high coverage of the population (over 40%) with less than 10 master faces, for three leading deep face recognition systems.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 19, 2023

A group of Swiss researchers have published an impressive security analysis of Threema. We present seven different attacks against the protocol in three different threat models. We discuss remediations for our attacks and draw three wider lessons for developers of secure protocols.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Logs from the Exchange server showed that the attacker provided username and password authentication like normal but were not challenged for a second factor through Duo. The logs from the Duo authentication server further showed that no attempts had been made to log into the account in question.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian , one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. All that was needed was the person’s name, address, birthday and Social Security number. That screw-up has since prompted a class action lawsuit against Experian.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Security is essential for a CMS. Security is also necessary if your retrieval system (such as a website or mobile app) has a paywall or is restricted to only a subset of people, such as customers or resellers. The newer “headless” CMS, running in the cloud, contains everything but the presentation system. Gierlinger.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Fast and Safe Protection for 5G Subscriber Privacy and Authentication. The protection and authenticity of subscriber authentication and privacy in 5G networks is equally important to requirements for increased reliability and low latency. 5G RAN and core networks rely heavily on authentication, authorization, and encryption.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

For federal and state governments and agencies, identity is the crux of a robust security implementation. Numerous individuals disclose confidential, personal data to commercial and public entities daily, necessitating that government institutions uphold stringent security measures to protect their assets.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

Experts at Tenable discovered 15 vulnerabilities in eight wireless presentation systems, including flaws that can be exploited to remotely hack devices. Wireless presentation systems are used to display content on a screen or through several devices, including mobile devices and laptops. ” reads the analysis published by Tenable.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Infrastructure as a service security is a concept that assures the safety of organizations’ data, applications, and networks in the cloud. Understanding the risks, advantages, and best practices connected with IaaS security is becoming increasingly important as enterprises shift their infrastructure to the cloud.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 7, 2020

Microsoft’s end of life (EOL) announcement for version 7 of its flagship Windows operating system means most customers still using it would no longer receive security updates or technical support. Use two-factor authentication where possible. Audit network configurations and identify any systems that can’t be updated.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2022

Ever present threats. Phishing emails may ask for personal information like a log-in or Social Security number to authenticate your account, or they may urge you to share your credit card payment details. Scams involving the Social Security Administration aren’t new, but they’re becoming more active and dangerous.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The experts at Tenable Research presented the technique on October 7 at DerbyCon 8.0 The most critical of these vulnerabilities is the authenticated RCE, which would allow attackers to potentially gain full system access. “All of these vulnerabilities require authentication (essentially legitimate credentials).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Thales collaborates with Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Enhance 5G Subscriber Privacy and Security. Thales collaborates with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to provide enhanced privacy and secure authentication for global 5G users, further extending its partner ecosystem. The challenge of 5G security and privacy.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In February, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about a novel cybercrime service that helped attackers intercept the one-time passwords (OTPs) that many websites require as a second authentication factor in addition to passwords. That is true two-factor authentication: Something you have, and something you know (and maybe also even something you are).

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 5, 2021

Researchers at Black Hat USA explain issues around defending "Golden Secrets" and present an approach to solving the problem.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

As technology has evolved, fingers (and palms and irises and faces) have increasingly been used as a means of biometric authentication. The one in storage matches the one provided at the time of authentication. All this compared to simply matching 2 strings as is done with password authentication. That is all.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2024

According to researchers, the leak revealed an authentication server with login details and information on Liquipedia’s users along with authentication details for Liquipedia admins. Alongside user information, administrator-level details were also present in the “clients” collection.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

The following vulnerabilities, discovered by the security researcher Pierre Barre , impact all versions up to 2.3.0 The following vulnerabilities, discovered by the security researcher Pierre Barre , impact all versions up to 2.3.0 ” wrote Barre. An updated report confirming all the vulnerabilities in the 2.2.2

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2021

Security vendor SonicWall has addressed three zero-day vulnerabilities affecting both its on-premises and hosted Email Security products. SonicWall is warning its customers to update their hosted and on-premises email security products to address three zero-day vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited in the wild.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2023

The Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) standard for email authentication is adopted by all U.S. DMARC addresses weaknesses in other email authentication standards to check for misleading “From” fields in emails and to improve tracking of potential spoofing campaigns. How Does DMARC Work?

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Under the revised Payment Services Directive (2015/2366) (PSD2), the European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Commission were required to develop and adopt regulatory technical standards on strong customer authentication and common and secure open standards of communication. STRONG CUSTOMER AUTHENTICATION. What is SCA?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2024

Red Hat Information Risk and Security and Red Hat Product Security determined that Fedora Linux 40 beta does use two versions of xz libraries – xz-libs-5.6.0-1.fc40.x86_64.rpm The malicious discovered by the researchers is obscured and is present only in the download package. rpm and xz-libs-5.6.0-2.fc40.x86_64.rpm

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 27, 2022

Such consolidation across markets is good news for customers and vendors alike in terms of market growth and maximizing security investments. Underlying all of this optimism, however, is the ever-present threat of cyberattack. They can be divided into two categories: Pre-Close Risks.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 1, 2023

Wireless security is the protection of wireless networks, devices and data from unwanted access and breaches. Wireless security is critical because these networks are subject to eavesdropping, interception, data theft, denial of services ( DoS ) assaults, and malware infestations. What is Wireless Security?

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2024

A new malware named Cuttlefish targets enterprise-grade and small office/home office (SOHO) routers to harvest public cloud authentication data. Cuttlefish has a modular structure, it was designed to primarily steal authentication data from web requests passing through the router from the local area network (LAN).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2024

Researchers from the firmware security firm Binarly released a free online scanner to detect the CVE-2024-3094 Backdoor Last week, Microsoft engineer Andres Freund discovered a backdoor issue in the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries. The malicious build interferes with the authentication in sshd through systemd.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

The Future of Payments Security. Even when banking organizations are upgrading security posture to safeguard sensitive financial information, hackers can steal the data intelligently by tying known vulnerabilities together, and making it turn out to be a potential attack. Securing digital transactions. Tue, 01/26/2021 - 09:17.

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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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Dark Reading

MAY 6, 2021

Internet security, privacy, and authentication aren't new issues, but IoT presents unique security challenges.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2018

Unauthorized SIM swaps often are perpetrated by fraudsters who have already stolen or phished a target’s password, as many banks and online services rely on text messages to send users a one-time code that needs to be entered in addition to a password for online authentication. ” AN ‘IDENTITY CRISIS’?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 23, 2022

Access Management is Essential for Strengthening OT Security. Attacking OT systems presents a major threat not only to business disruption, but also to national economy and security. Identity and access management can play an essential role into strengthening the security posture of critical infrastructure.

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Presently, Meduza password stealer supports Windows Server 2012/2016/2019/2022 and Windows 10/11. Atom, Comodo Dragon, Torch, Comodo, Slimjet, 360Browser, 360 Secure Browser, Maxthon3, Maxthon5, Maxthon, QQBrowser, K-Meleon, Xpom, Lenovo Browser, Xvast, Go!,

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