iOS Password Prompts are Ripe for Abuse

Apple’s policy to repeatedly ask users for their iTunes password needlessly exposes iOS device owners to possible phishing attacks, according a mobile app developer Felix Krause. Krause’s beef with Apple is that too often and seemingly at random times, popups deliver a dialogue box for users to...

Watch Out! Difficult-to-Detect Phishing Attack Can Steal Your Apple ID Password

Can you detect which one of the above screens—asking an iPhone user for iCloud password—is original and which is fake? Well, you would agree that both screenshots are almost identical, but the pop-up shown in the second image is fake—a perfect phishing attack that can be used to trick even the mo...

When Phishing Starts from the Inside

A growing concern of security professionals is internal phishing attacks - phishing emails sent from one trusted user to another of the same organization. Internal phishing emails are used in multi-stage attacks in which an email account is owned either by controlling the users device with...

Practical Tips for Personal Online Security

As a cybersecurity professional I write about enterprise security on a daily basis. But with the start of National Cyber Security Awareness Month NCSAM I was inspired to switch gears and write about personal security given this week’s theme of simple steps to online safety for consumers. So, with...

PT-2018-16193 · Nextcloud +1 · Nextcloud Server +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Nextcloud Server versions prior to 12.0.3 Description: The issue allows an attacker with obtained user credentials to bypass 2 Factor Authentication due to improper authentication. Recommendations: For versions prior to 12.0.3, update to...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7225

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

Code injection

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

CVE-2015-7225

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

CVE-2015-7225

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

CVE-2015-7225

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

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7225

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

CVE-2015-7225

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

CVE-2015-7225

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

CVE-2015-7225

Concretely, CVE-2015-7225 affects devise-two-factor prior to v4.0.2, where an OTP can be reused for one immediately trailing time interval due to an incomplete fix. Multiple connected records (e.g., CVE-2021-43177 references) confirm the vulnerability pattern and the remediation: upgrade to devis...

Problems of Vulnerability Prioritization and Detection

It’s the third part of our talk with Daniil Svetlov at his radio show “Safe Environment” recorded 29.03.2017. In this part we talk about Vulnerability Prioritization and Detection: Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS Environmental factor Manual and automated vulnerability detection...

Error: "32 authentication policies are already bound" While Binding Authentication Policy

When multiple policies two-factor are used for one virtual server with the total number of policies exceeding 32, there will be error message popping up "32 authentication policies are already bound"...

Instagram Hacker Puts 6 Million Celebrities Personal Data Up For Sale On DoxaGram

It's now official, Instagram has suffered a massive data breach, and reportedly an unknown hacker has stolen personal details of more than 6 million Instagram accounts. Just yesterday, we reported that Instagram had patched a critical API vulnerability that allowed the attacker to access phone...

Instagram Suffers Data Breach! Hacker Stole Contact Info of High-Profile Users

Instagram has recently suffered a possibly serious data breach with hackers gaining access to the phone numbers and email addresses for many "high-profile" users. The 700 million-user-strong, Facebook-owned photo sharing service has currently notified all of its verified users that an unknown...

Someone Hacked Selena Gomez Instagram, Shared Nude Justin Bieber Photos

The highest followers account on Instagram owned by Selena Gomez has recently been hacked with unknown hackers posting a bunch of nude photographs of her ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber on her account. The latest hack is not part of the ongoing Fappening events affecting a majority of celebrities by...

Fappening 2017: More Celebrity Photos Hacked and Leaked Online

It seems like celebrities have not taken their security seriously, which once again resulted in the leaking of personal photographs of more a-listed celebrities. Dozens of personal and intimate photos of Anne Hathaway, Miley Cyrus, Kristen Stewart, Katharine McPhee, golfer Tiger Woods and his ex...