Remove author dan-goodin-ars-technica
article thumbnail

VMware Flaw a Vector in SolarWinds Breach?

Krebs on Security

7 was being used by Russian hackers to impersonate authorized users on victim networks. 7, 2020, the NSA said “Russian state-sponsored malicious cyber actors are exploiting a vulnerability in VMware Access and VMware Identity Manager products, allowing the actors access to protected data and abusing federated authentication.”

article thumbnail

Actions Target Russian Govt. Botnet, Hydra Dark Market

Krebs on Security

Meanwhile, WatchGuard appears to have silently fixed its vulnerability in an update shipped almost a year ago , according to Dan Goodin at Ars Technica. On April 1, ASUS released updates to fix the security vulnerability in a range of its Wi-Fi routers. SANDWORM AND TRITON. ” HYDRA. Federation Tower, Moscow.

Marketing 233
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Iowa Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Men Hired to Test Their Security

Krebs on Security

“They said they found a courthouse door unlocked, so they closed it from the outside and let it lock,” Dan Goodin of Ars Technica wrote of the ordeal in November. “The pentesters had already said they used a tool to open the front door,” Goodin recounted. The deputies seemed impressed.”

Security 302
article thumbnail

Okta: Breach Affected All Customer Support Users

Krebs on Security

That access allowed the hackers to steal authentication tokens from some Okta customers, which the attackers could then use to make changes to customer accounts, such as adding or modifying authorized users. Dan Goodin over at Ars Technica reckons this explains why MFA wasn’t set up on the compromised Okta service account.

article thumbnail

Leaked Chats Show LAPSUS$ Stole T-Mobile Source Code

Krebs on Security

Dan Goodin at Ars Technica wrote about LAPSUS$’s unusual extortion demand against NVIDIA : The group pledged to publish the stolen code unless NVIDIA agreed to make the drivers for its video cards open-source. 26, LAPSUS$ broke into graphics and computing chip maker NVIDIA.

MDM 347