Memcached UDP Reflection Attacks

Akamai is aware of a new DDoS reflection attack vector: UDP-based memcached traffic. Memcached is a tool meant to cache data and reduce strain on heavier data stores, like disk or databases. The protocol allows the server to be queried for information about key value stores and is only intended t...

Nextcloud: twofactor_auth bypassable if provider fails to load

Just want to preface this by saying that this is probably not a significant vulnerability, as it requires that the server either have recently been incorrectly upgraded or otherwise misconfigured. However in the administration of my own personal NextCloud instance I have hit this several times...

ReelPhish: A Real-Time Two-Factor Phishing Tool

Social Engineering and Two-Factor Authentication Social engineering campaigns are a constant threat to businesses because they target the weakest chain in security: people. A typical attack would capture a victim’s username and password and store it for an attacker to reuse later. Two-Factor...

CVE-2018-6389 WordPress Parameter Resource Consumption Remote DoS

Yesterday Monday, February 5, 2018, a zero-day vulnerability in WordPress core was disclosed, which allows an attacker to perform a denial of service DoS attack against a vulnerable application. The vulnerability exists in the modules used to load JS and CSS files. These modules were designed to...

A week in security (January 22 – January 28)

Last week on Labs, we analyzed a rogue app outbreak on Twitter, took a look at how Singapore's government is faring with network defense, and rolled out our 2017 State of Malware report. We also became visionaries in Gartner's Magic Quadrant report and explored a VR data mishap. Other news Man...

Cybersecurity New Year’s resolutions, you say? Why not.

It's mid-January, and oh, how time flies. It wasn’t long since we bid farewell to 2017 and welcomed the new year with renewed hope and vigor. Of course, with such positivity comes a sense of an equally favorable outlook for the year ahead. However good that may sound, being faced with a tabula ra...

WordPress Two-Factor Authentication – Clockwork SMS plugin <=1.0.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Reflected Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability found by Elias Dimopoulos in WordPress Two-Factor Authentication – Clockwork SMS plugin versions =1.0.3 Solution Update the WordPress Two-Factor Authentication – Clockwork SMS plugin to the latest available version at least 1.1.0...

Akamaizing Your Dev & QA Environments

Over the last few months, I've been talking to many development and test teams who deliver their sites and applications through the Akamai Intelligent Platform. One common challenge they face is how to test their Akamai delivery configurations on the Internet against their private development and...

BankBot Returns On Play Store – A Never Ending Android Malware Story

Even after so many efforts by Google for making its Play Store away from malware, shady apps somehow managed to fool its anti-malware protections and infect people with malicious software. A team of researchers from several security firms has uncovered two new malware campaigns targeting Google...

CVE-2017-16634

In Joomla! before 3.8.2, a bug allowed third parties to bypass a user's 2-factor authentication method...

CVE-2017-16634

In Joomla! before 3.8.2, a bug allowed third parties to bypass a user's 2-factor authentication method...

CVE-2017-16634

In Joomla! before 3.8.2, a bug allowed third parties to bypass a user's 2-factor authentication method...

Authentication flaw

In Joomla! before 3.8.2, a bug allowed third parties to bypass a user's 2-factor authentication method...

CVE-2017-16634

CVE-2017-16634 affects Joomla! 3.x prior to 3.8.2 and stems from a bug in the core authentication flow that allows bypassing a user’s two‑factor authentication method. The connected Nessus entries corroborate authentication bypass for Joomla! versions under 3.8.2. The documented remediation is to...

Part 2: All rise! Mind these digital crimes and arm your business against them

In the first installment of this two-part series, we advised consumers to stay on top of a selection of up-and-coming crimes to significantly lessen the chances of encountering them in the future. For this post, we're going to look into digital crimes that keeps small businesses and large...

[20171102] - Core - 2-factor-authentication bypass

A bug allowed third parties to bypass a user's 2-factor-authentication method...

Google’s ‘Advanced Protection’ Tools Trade Ease-of-Use for Security

Government officials and journalists who use Google services were the first to be invited to use advanced Gmail account security services announced Tuesday. Experts say it’s no security panacea, but tools provided under the Google banner called Advanced Protection empower any private Google users...

Enable Google's New "Advanced Protection" If You Don't Want to Get Hacked

It is good to be paranoid when it comes to cybersecurity. Google already provides various advanced features such as login alerts and two-factor authentication to keep your Google account secure. However, if you are extra paranoid, Google has just introduced its strongest ever security feature,...

ONVIF Device Services

Nessus was able to map the enabled ONVIF services on the remote device by sending a GetCapabilities SOAP request. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid103866; scriptversion"$Revision: 1.2 $"; scriptcvsdate"$Date: 2017/10/31 18:41:24 $"; scriptnameenglish:"ONVIF Device Services";...

Open Redirect

Overview st is a module for serving static files. An attacker is able to craft a request that results in an HTTP 301 redirect to an entirely different domain. A request for: http://some.server.com//nodesecurity.org/%2e%2e would result in a 301 to //nodesecurity.org/%2e%2e which most browsers trea...