Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the Apple iCloud Mess, Potential Home Depot Breach

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the Apple iCloud mess, why the company waited until now to extend its 2FA system to the cloud, and the fallout from the possible Home Depot data breach. Download: digitalunderground165.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Apple Plans to Extend 2FA to iCloud

In the wake of the iCloud photo theft scandal, Apple’s CEO said the company plans to extend its two-factor authentication system to logins to the iCloud service from mobile device. The change will come when iOS 8.0 comes out later this month. The change will give users the option of enabling a...

Another Bypass Identified in PayPal 2FA

A security researcher has uncovered a simple method for bypassing the two-factor authentication mechanism that PayPal uses to protect accounts that are tied to eBay accounts. The vulnerability is related to the way that the login flow works when a user is prompted to connect her eBay account to h...

PayPal 2FA Bypass Shows Difficulty of Getting Authentication Right

Oftentimes, looking at a given security vulnerability or mistake by a vendor, it’s easy to wonder how on earth the bug got through in the first place or the company didn’t catch the problem earlier. That definitely could have been the case with the recently disclosed bypass of PayPal’s two-factor...

Coinbase: 2FA settings allowed to be changed with no delay/freeze on funds

With the nature of bitcoin's instant transactions and the increase level of phishing/malware attempts on users, many bitcoin related businesses have freeze/delays on funds once a user changes their 2FA settings. That design keeps the 2FA from being defeated instantly if the user's email account h...

Dyreza Banker Trojan Seen Bypassing SSL

Banker Trojans have proven to be reliable and effective tools for attackers interested in quietly stealing large amounts of money from unwitting victims. Zeus, Carberp and many others have made piles of money for their creators and the attackers who use them, and researchers have been looking at ...

Coinbase: Bypassing 2FA for BTC transfers

Under advanced settings, users have the ability to protect their wallet by requiring two-factor confirmation when sending bitcoins. Personally, I have configured my account with the most secure option, which requires two factor confirmation when sending any amount of bitcoins. However, a flaw...

DUO-PSA-2014-002: Duo Product Security Advisory

Duo Product Security Advisory Advisory ID: DUO-PSA-2014-002 Publication Date: 2014-01-09 Status: Confirmed, Unfixed Document Revision: 3 Overview Duo Security has identified an issue in which it is possible to bypass second factor authentication of Remote Desktop Web Access and Remote Desktop...

millions stolen in Bitcoin heist

More trouble for Bitcoin this week after an Australian wallet service admitted that attackers broke into their systems and made off with more than $1.2 million worth of the the digital crypto-currency. The theft comes on the coat-tails of a contentious research paper claiming that a...

Code Repository 'Github' offers Two-Factor Authentication to 3.5 million users

Code repository GitHub offers two-factor authentication to beef up security around its users' accounts. Github is a coding repository where developers used to build their projects projects that may turn out to be valued knowledgeable assets. Two-Factor Authentication adds another layer of...