FCC Proposal Targets SIM Swapping, Port-Out Fraud

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission FCC is asking for feedback on new proposed rules to crack down on SIM swapping and number port-out fraud, increasingly prevalent scams in which identity thieves hijack a targets mobile phone number and use that to wrest control over the victims online...

3 key resources to accelerate your passwordless journey

Every organization today faces password-related challenges—phishing campaigns, productivity loss, and password management costs to name just a few. The risks now outweigh the benefits when it comes to passwords. Even the strongest passwords are easily phish-able and vulnerable to attacks, such as...

3 key resources to accelerate your passwordless journey

Every organization today faces password-related challenges—phishing campaigns, productivity loss, and password management costs to name just a few. The risks now outweigh the benefits when it comes to passwords. Even the strongest passwords are easily phish-able and vulnerable to attacks, such as...

Telegram-powered bots circumvent 2FA

Two-factor authentication is a great way to protect your online accounts, and we always recommend you turn it on. But where users put up walls, you can be sure there are cybercriminals trying to break them down. Yesterday, security intelligence firm, Intel 147, revealed it had noticed an uptick o...

The passwordless future is here for your Microsoft account

Nobody likes passwords. They’re inconvenient. They’re a prime target for attacks. Yet for years they’ve been the most important layer of security for everything in our digital lives—from email to bank accounts, shopping carts to video games. We are expected to create complex and unique passwords,...

Security Misconfiguration☝️ — What you need to know

Security Misconfiguration☝️ — What you need to know Introduction API7:2019 Security Misconfiguration ‍What is Security Misconfiguration? There are several factors that might indicate a Security Misconfiguration. We should be very careful with handling configurations because if the correct security...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-22904

The actionpack ruby gem before 6.1.3.2, 6.0.3.7, 5.2.4.6, 5.2.6 suffers from a possible denial of service vulnerability in the Token Authentication logic in Action Controller due to a too permissive regular expression. Impacted code uses authenticateorrequestwithhttptoken or...

How to Automatically Move Applications to Start Menu Using Receiver for Windows 4.0 and 4.1

This article is intended for Citrix administrators and technical teams only. Non-admin users must contact their company’s Help Desk/IT support team and can refer to CTX297149 for more information. This article describes how to automatically move applications to the Start menu using Receiver for...

Security Bulletin: Authentication mechanism vulnerability affects IBM Connect:Direct for UNIX (CVE-2020-4747)

Summary IBM Connect:Direct for UNIX can allow a local or remote user to obtain an authenticated CLI session due to improper authentication methods. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2020-4747 DESCRIPTION: IBM Connect:Direct for UNIX can allow a local or remote user to obtain an authenticated CLI...

Convicted SIM Swapper Gets 3 Years in Jail

A 21-year-old Irishman who pleaded guilty to charges of helping to steal millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies from victims has been sentenced to just under three years in prison. The defendant is part of an alleged conspiracy involving at least eight others in the United States who stand accus...

Enter the Vault: Authentication Issues in HashiCorp Vault

Posted by Felix Wilhelm, Project Zero Introduction In this blog post I'll discuss two vulnerabilities in HashiCorp Vault and its integration with Amazon Web Services AWS and Google Cloud Platform GCP. These issues can lead to an authentication bypass in configurations that use the aws and gcp aut...

The passwordless present: Will biometrics replace passwords forever?

When it comes to securing your sensitive, personally identifiable information against criminals who can engineer countless ways to snatch it from under your nose, experts have long recommended the use of strong, complex passwords. Using long passphrases with combinations of numbers, letters, and...

QRadar Community Edition 7.3.1.6 Path Traversal

------------------------------------------------------------------------ QRadar session manager path traversal vulnerability ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yorick Koster, September 2019...

GitHub hosted Magecart skimmer used against hundreds of e-commerce sites

Every day, new e-commerce websites fall into the hands of one of the many Magecart skimmers. Unbeknownst to shoppers, criminals are harvesting their personal information, including payment details in the online equivalent of ATM card skimming. Most often the skimming code—written in JavaScript an...

Insecure Authentication

openssh uses an insecure authentication. It was discovered that the OpenSSH sshd daemon did not check the list of keyboard-interactive authentication methods for duplicates. A remote attacker could use this flaw to bypass the MaxAuthTries limit, making it easier to perform password guessing attac...

August 9, 2016 — KB3176495 (OS Build 14393.51)

August 9, 2016 — KB3176495 OS Build 14393.51 This update includes quality improvements and security fixes. No new operating system features are being introduced in this update. Key changes include: Improved reliability for Internet Explorer 11. Addressed issue to keep pen click settings after...

Security update for postgresql95 (important)

This update for postgresql95 fixes the following issues: Upate to PostgreSQL 9.5.11: Security issues fixed: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/release-9-5-11.html CVE-2018-1053, boo1077983: Ensure that all temporary files made by pgupgrade are non-world-readable. boo1079757: Rename...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: curl-7.55.1-7.fc27

curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporti ng FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, I MAP, SMTP, POP3 and RTSP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies,...

postgresql: Empty password accepted in some authentication methods

It was found that authenticating to a PostgreSQL database account with an empty password was possible despite libpq's refusal to send an empty password. A remote attacker could potentially use this flaw to gain access to database accounts with empty passwords...

Android Lockscreen Patterns Less Secure Than PINs

An academic study set out to prove whether it’s better to protect your Android phone with a PIN or a swipe pattern. The answer is PIN. At least when it comes to proximity attacks, namely someone lurking about trying to guess your PIN or unlock pattern. The study PDF, published Friday by researche...