Security update for MozillaThunderbird (important)

This update for Mozilla Thunderbird to version 60.2.1 fixes multiple issues. Multiple security issues were fixed in the Mozilla platform as advised in MFSA 2018-25 and MFSA 2018-28. In general, these flaws cannot be exploited through email in Thunderbird because scripting is disabled when reading...

A week in security (October 15 – 21)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we went over how to build your own motion-activated security camera, wondered whether FIDO is the future instrument to replace passwords and usernames, informed you about information operations on Twitter, and released our Q3 Malwarebytes Labs Cybercrime Tactics an...

Is FIDO the future instrument to prove our identity?

FIDO, short for Fast IDentity Online, is an industry consortium started in 2013 to address the lack of interoperability among strong authentication devices and the problems users face creating and remembering multiple usernames and passwords. Among the founders were those who work in the financia...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaThunderbird (openSUSE-2018-994)

This update for MozillaThunderbird to version 60.0 fixes the following issues : These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-12359: Prevent buffer overflow using computed size of canvas element bsc1098998. - CVE-2018-12360: Prevent use-after-free when using focus bsc1098998. - CVE-2018-12361:...

Security update for MozillaThunderbird (important)

This update for MozillaThunderbird to version 60.0 fixes the following issues: These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2018-12359: Prevent buffer overflow using computed size of canvas element bsc1098998. - CVE-2018-12360: Prevent use-after-free when using focus bsc1098998. - CVE-2018-12361:...

Google 'Titan Security Key' Is Now On Sale For $50

Google just made its Titan Security Key available on its store for $50. First announced last month at Google Cloud Next '18 convention, Titan Security Key is a tiny USB device—similar to Yubico's YubiKey—that offers hardware-based two-factor authentication 2FA for online accounts with the highest...

Google 'Titan Security Key' Is Now On Sale For $50

Google just made its Titan Security Key available on its store for $50. First announced last month at Google Cloud Next '18 convention, Titan Security Key is a tiny USB device—similar to Yubico's YubiKey—that offers hardware-based two-factor authentication 2FA for online accounts with the highest...

Google Employees Use a Physical Token as Their Second Authentication Factor

Krebs on Security is reporting that all 85,000 Google employees use two-factor authentication with a physical token. A Google spokesperson said Security Keys now form the basis of all account access at Google. "We have had no reported or confirmed account takeovers since implementing security key...

Titan Security Keys – Google launches its own USB-based FIDO U2F Keys

At Google Cloud Next '18 convention in San Francisco, the company has introduced Titan Security Keys—a tiny USB device, similar to Yubico's YubiKey, that offers hardware-based two-factor authentication for your online accounts with the highest level of protection against phishing attacks. These...

Security advisory YSA-2018-02 | Yubico

In Chrome 61, released in September, 2017, Google included a feature called WebUSB. WebUSB allows websites to request direct access to USB devices through JavaScript. A web page could potentially access and interact with a USB device interface unless the operating system reserved exclusive access...

Facebook Adds FIDO U2F Security Keys Feature For Secure Logins

Hacking password for a Facebook account is not easy, but also not impossible. We have always been advising you to enable two-factor authentication — or 2FA — to secure your online accounts, a process that requires users to manually enter, typically a six-digit secret code generated by an...

Facebook Touts 'Safer' Security Key Login

Facebook is giving privacy-minded users looking to fortify their accounts yet another layer of security. Brad Hill, a security engineer with the social network, announced on Facebook’s Security page on Thursday that effective immediately, it would let users tie a physical security key to their...

Fido My Account - Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions, Redefined SSL Common Names verifier vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Fido My Account published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Netflix Releases FIDO Incident Response Tool

Engineers at Netflix have released another one of the company’s bespoke security tools as an open-source application, this time an incident-response system known as FIDO. The tool is designed to help automate the process of incident response, and specifically it acts as a new layer that helps tie...

Google Adds Hardware Security Key For Account Protection

Google is introducing an improved two-factor authentication system for Gmail and its other services that uses a tiny hardware token that will only work on legitimate Google sites. The new Security Key system is meant to help defeat attacks that rely on highly plausible fake sites that are designe...

Two-Factor Authentication Options for Web Services

LinkedIn is the latest in a long line of high profile Internet services companies to offer two-factor authentication to its user base, joining Twitter, Evernote, Gmail and myriad others. And much like those other services, the move to a stronger form authentication is a reactionary one, coming on...

Google Joins FIDO Alliance Effort to Move Beyond Passwords

Google, which gradually has been moving its users away from using passwords as their main form of authentication for Web services, has joined a young organization whose goal is to phase out passwords and replace them with various forms of strong authentication. The FIDO Alliance, formed last year...

DARPA, FIDO Alliance Join Race to Replace Passwords

Nearly everyone agrees that passwords are the bane of Internet security. For years, industry thinkers have somewhat vaguely referenced the need for Internet fingerprints capable of reliably verifing identities online. Yet here we are, it’s 2013 and passwords remain the primary means of...