U.S. Mobile Giants Want to be Your Online Identity

The four major U.S. wireless carriers today detailed a new initiative that may soon let Web sites eschew passwords and instead authenticate visitors by leveraging data elements unique to each customer's phone and mobile subscriber account, such as location, customer reputation, and physical...

How to Secure SSH Access to the NetScaler Appliance with Public Key Authentication

This article contains information about securing administrative access to the NetScaler appliance by using the public key authentication mechanism of Secure Shell SSH. Requirements To complete the procedure in this document, the NetScaler appliance must have the following tools: An SSH client...

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...

Instagram Adds 3 New Security Tools to Make its Platform More Secure

Instagram is growing quickly—and with the second most popular social media network in the world behind just Facebook, the photo-sharing network absolutely dominates when it comes to user interactions. And with great success comes great responsibility—responsibility to keep users' accounts safe,...

Instagram Adds 3 New Security Tools to Make its Platform More Secure

Instagram is growing quickly—and with the second most popular social media network in the world behind just Facebook, the photo-sharing network absolutely dominates when it comes to user interactions. And with great success comes great responsibility—responsibility to keep users' accounts safe,...

The vulnerability of the Active Directory Federation Services for Windows operating systems allows a perpetrator to bypass the authentication process.

The vulnerability of the Active Directory Federation Services ADFS service on Windows operating systems is related to improper handling of multi-factor authentication requests. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to bypass authentication procedures by sending specially crafted...

Tinfoil Devise-two-factor does not "burn" a successfully validated one-time password (OTP)

Tinfoil Devise-two-factor before 2.0.0 does not strictly follow RFC 6238 § 5.2 and does not "burn" a successfully validated one-time password aka OTP, which allows physically proximate attackers with a target user's login credentials to log in as said user by obtaining the OTP through performing ...

GHSA-X489-JJWM-52G7 Tinfoil Devise-two-factor does not "burn" a successfully validated one-time password (OTP)

Tinfoil Devise-two-factor before 2.0.0 does not strictly follow RFC 6238 § 5.2 and does not "burn" a successfully validated one-time password aka OTP, which allows physically proximate attackers with a target user's login credentials to log in as said user by obtaining the OTP through performing ...

Good Primer on Two-Factor Authentication Security

Stuart Schechter published a good primer on the security issues surrounding two-factor authentication. While it's often an important security measure, it's not a panacea. Stuart discusses the usability and security issues that you have to think about before deploying the system...

Nextcloud Server Security Bypass Vulnerability (Aug 2018)

Nextcloud Server is prone to a security bypass vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE =...

AT&T Faces $224M Legal Challenge Over SIM-Jacking Rings

Cryptocurrency investor and Dogecoin founder Michael Terpin has filed a $223.8 million lawsuit against AT&T, alleging the mobile phone giant turned a blind eye to SIM fraud. Terpin alleges that more than 3 million cryptocurrency tokens worth $24 million were lifted from his digital wallet at an...

Widespread Instagram Hack Locking Users Out of Their Accounts

Instagram has been hit by a widespread hacking campaign that appears to stem from Russia and have affected hundreds of users over the past week, leaving them locked out of their accounts. A growing number of Instagram users are taking to social media, including Twitter and Reddit, to report a...

CVE-2018-8340

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists when Active Directory Federation Services AD FS improperly handles multi-factor authentication requests, aka "AD FS Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability." This affects Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 10 Servers...

CVE-2018-8340

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists when Active Directory Federation Services AD FS improperly handles multi-factor authentication requests, aka "AD FS Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability." This affects Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 10 Servers...

EUVD-2018-19991

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists when Active Directory Federation Services AD FS improperly handles multi-factor authentication requests, aka "AD FS Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability." This affects Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 10 Servers...

CVE-2018-8340

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists when Active Directory Federation Services AD FS improperly handles multi-factor authentication requests, aka "AD FS Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability." This affects Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 10 Servers...

Microsoft Flaw Allows Full Multi-Factor Authentication Bypass

A vulnerability in Microsoft’s Active Directory Federation Services ADFS has been uncovered that would allow malicious actors to bypass multi-factor authentication MFA safeguards. Many organizations rely on ADFS to manage identities and resources across their entire enterprise, and ADFS functions...

ADFS Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists when Active Directory Federation Services ADFS improperly handles multi-factor authentication requests. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker could send a specially crafted authentication request. An attacker who successfully exploited this...

FBI Warns of ‘Unlimited’ ATM Cashout Blitz

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI is warning banks that cybercriminals are preparing to carry out a highly choreographed, global fraud scheme known as an "ATM cash-out," in which crooks hack a bank or payment card processor and use cloned cards at cash machines around the world to...

Nextcloud Server Authorization Issues Vulnerability

Nextcloud is a client-server software suite for creating network hard disks. An authorization issue vulnerability exists in versions of Nextcloud Server prior to 12.0.3, which can be exploited by an attacker to obtain user credentials and bypass two-factor authentication...