duo -- Two-factor authentication bypass

The duo security team reports: An untrusted user may be able to set the httpproxy variable to an invalid address. If this happens, this will trigger the configured 'failmode' behavior, which defaults to safe. Safe mode causes the authentication to report a success...

Senate's Use of Signal A Good First Step, Experts Say

On Tuesday the United States Senate made it official and approved the use of encrypted messaging app Signal by staffers. Encryption advocates applauded the measure, but say more needs to be done to protect “civic” infrastructure critical to democracy. “The move to secure communications...

Is Your Security Team Setup To Fail?

The ingredients for strong cybersecurity aren’t a secret. In fact, they haven’t changed significantly over the past 20 years—the ingredients are available to almost every organization out there. On the surface, doing security isn’t that hard: | Patch quickly and frequently. Use reasonable securit...

SSA.GOV To Require Stronger Authentication

The U.S. Social Security Administration will soon require Americans to use stronger authentication when accessing their accounts at ssa.gov. As part of the change, SSA will require all users to enter a username and password in addition to a one-time security code sent their email or phone. In thi...

Criminals are Now Exploiting SS7 Flaws to Hack Smartphone Two-Factor Authentication Systems

I've previously written about the serious vulnerabilities in the SS7 phone routing system. Basically, the system doesn't authenticate messages. Now, criminals are using it to hack smartphone-based two-factor authentication systems: In short, the issue with SS7 is that the network believes whateve...

Strengthening Network Access Security with Multi-Factor Authentication

As technology continues to develop, more and more applications become not just convenient, but necessary. It was less than a decade ago that it was inconceivable we would 'need' to carry a consumer device to access the internet in our pockets. Today, it is essential. The same is true with the...

Security News This Week: Oh Good, Hackers Beat Two-Factor to Rob Bank Accounts

Each weekend we round up the news stories that we didn't break or cover in depth but that still deserve your attention. The post Security News This Week: Oh Good, Hackers Beat Two-Factor to Rob Bank Accounts appeared first on WIRED...

Warning! Don't Click that Google Docs Link You Just Received in Your Email

Did someone just share a random Google Doc with you? First of all — Do not click on that Google Doc link you might have just received in your email and delete it immediately — even if it's from someone you know. I, my colleagues at The Hacker News, and even people all around the Internet,...

A Storm’s a Coming: How businesses can defend against threat actor groups like Pawn Storm

Pawn Storm aka Sednit5, Fancy Bear, APT28, Sofacy and STRONTIUM8 might sound like Instagram accounts, top-secret spy programs or recently passed legislation, but in reality they are all different names for the same successful cyber espionage group or threat actor group. These actors often use...

Microsoft Touts New Phone-Based Login Mechanism

It likely won’t mark the death knell of passwords but Microsoft announced this week its giving users a new way to sign into their accounts without having to enter a lengthy combination of numbers, letters and characters. The feature, which relies on users having access to their mobile phones, is...

LibSass: stack overflow #3 in libsass

./sassc test387 /dev/null triggers this stack overflow. ==9081==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: stack-overflow on address 0x7fffb48eadc0 pc 0x00000087a07b bp 0x7fffb48eba30 sp 0x7fffb48ead60 T0 0 0x87a07a in Sass::Parser::parsefactor /home/geeknik/libsass/src/parser.cpp:1379 1 0x878304 in...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7609

elfcompress.c in elfutils 0.168 does not validate the zlib compression factor, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted ELF file...

PT-2017-17840 · Red Hat +3 · Elfutils +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: elfutils version 0.168 Description: The issue is related to the elf compress.c file in elfutils, which does not validate the zlib compression factor. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically memory consumption, ...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7609

elfcompress.c in elfutils 0.168 does not validate the zlib compression factor, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted ELF file...

Lessons From Top-to-Bottom Compromise of Brazilian Bank

SINT MAARTEN—For three months starting last October, hackers pulled off a stunning compromise of a Brazilian bank’s operations top-to-bottom. The attack was comprehensive with each of the bank’s 36 domains, corporate email and DNS under the attacker’s control. Once Kaspersky Lab researchers Fabio...

Remote Access no longer needs to be Complex and Cumbersome

From an IT management perspective, remote access management can be complex. Deployment, administration, testing and compliance is often multifaceted and time consuming, and security is an on-going concern. Granted, I have talked with IT professionals who tell me VPNs - being the primary remote...

Instagram Adds Two-Factor Authentication

Instagram became the latest in a long line of services over the years to offer users two-factor authentication this week. Kevin Systrom, co-founder and CEO of the Facebook-owned mobile photo-sharing app announced the feature on its blog Thursday afternoon. With the feature – accessible via Settin...

Google, Jigsaw Partner on Free Tools to Secure Elections

Alphabet subsidiary Jigsaw announced on Tuesday that it and Google would offer a free suite of security tools aimed at securing political elections. The announcement was fresh off a tense House Intelligence Committee meeting on Monday during which FBI Director James Comey confirmed that the burea...

Hackers Using Fake Cellphone Towers to Spread Android Banking Trojan

Chinese Hackers have taken Smishing attack to the next level, using rogue cell phone towers to distribute Android banking malware via spoofed SMS messages. SMiShing — phishing attacks sent via SMS — is a type of attack wherein fraudsters use number spoofing attack to send convincing bogus message...

Trello: Rate limiting of incorrect Two Factor Authentication codes not enforced

Trello has a feature which allows the user to enable Two factor authentication to enhance the security. But no Rate Limiting is present on second authentication, i.e. code sent to Registered Mobile Number. Attacker can try as many attempts as he wants to bypass the 2 factor authentication. So usi...