Smartphones are not the problem with MFA security

We've recently seen big attacks play out on prominent technology companies despite their use of smartphone-based multi-factor authentication. These attacks are real, they do happen, and it appears that even the smartphone cannot protect us anymore. While this conclusion may be tempting, it actual...

The evolution of MFA authentication technology and what needs to change next

Authentication attacks are big business, and no one is immune from them. In fact, two men were recently arrested and charged in the Twitter employee account compromise that happened in July 2020. Using employee account credentials, the attackers took over several highly visible celebrity Twitter...

Spotify resets some user logins after hacker database found floating online

A team of researchers working for vpnMentor has found a treasure trove in the form of an unsecured Elasticsearch database containing over 380 million records. The trove contained login credentials and other data belonging to Spotify users. So whats Spotify doing leaving its user data hanging arou...

Majority of Microsoft 365 Admins Don't Enable MFA

Up to 78 percent of Microsoft 365 administrators do not have multi-factor authentication MFA security measures enabled. A recent report by CoreView Research also found that 97 percent of all total Microsoft 365 users do not use MFA, shedding a grim light on the security issues inherent with the...

CVE-2020-15909

SolarWinds N-central up to 2020.1 is described as vulnerable to session hijacking via the JSESSIONID cookie. The JSESSIONID attribute is not validated against multiple sources (e.g., source IP, MFA claims) while the victim remains logged in, allowing an attacker to steal the cookie and reuse it b...

CVE-2020-15909

SolarWinds N-central through 2020.1 allows session hijacking and requires user interaction or physical access. The N-Central JSESSIONID cookie attribute is not checked against multiple sources such as sourceip, MFA claim, etc. as long as the victim stays logged in within N-Central. To take...

Information Disclosure

cas-server-support-otp-mfa is vulnerable to information disclosure. The vulnerability exists as the user's secret key is sent as a GET parameter in an img tag when Google Authenticator is used...

Akamai Identified as a Leader Among Zero Trust Providers by Independent Research Firm

We are pleased to share that Akamai has been identified as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust eXtended Ecosystem Platform Providers, Q3 2020. In the report, Forrester evaluated how each vendor's portfolio maps and delivers on specific components of the Zero Trust eXtended ZTX framework...

Zivver: Bypass MFA requirement to send messages

This report correctly discloses a trick by which messages can be sent in spite of apparent MFA requirement. However, the MFA notice was actually intended to be a dismissible alert -- due to some confusion within user story and development process, the client-side 'requirement' was implemented. We...

CVE-2020-0837 ADFS MFA Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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How to Write a Cybersecurity Playbook During a Pandemic

If it feels like you’re constantly revising the draft of your cybersecurity playbook these days, it’s because you probably are. Executing a thorough cybersecurity approach was hard enough before the pandemic. Then COVID-19 came along and forced all of your employees out of the office and into the...

SkyArk - Helps To Discover, Assess And Secure The Most Privileged Entities In Azure And AWS

SkyArk is a cloud security project with two mainscanning modules: 1. AzureStealth - Scans Azure environments 2. AWStealth - Scan AWS environments These two scanning modules will discover the most privileged entities in the target AWS and Azure. The Main Goal - Discover The Most Privileged Cloud...

Attackers Horn in on MFA Bypass Options for Account Takeovers

An uptick in business email compromise attacks is being attributed to successful compromises of multi-factor authentication MFA and conditional access controls, according to researchers. While brute-forcing and password spraying techniques are the most common way to mount account takeovers, more...

CVE-2020-5384

Authentication Bypass Vulnerability RSA MFA Agent 2.0 for Microsoft Windows contains an Authentication Bypass vulnerability. A local unauthenticated attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability by using an alternate path to bypass authentication in order to gain full access to the system...

Authentication flaw

Authentication Bypass Vulnerability RSA MFA Agent 2.0 for Microsoft Windows contains an Authentication Bypass vulnerability. A local unauthenticated attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability by using an alternate path to bypass authentication in order to gain full access to the system...

CVE-2020-5384

Authentication Bypass Vulnerability RSA MFA Agent 2.0 for Microsoft Windows contains an Authentication Bypass vulnerability. A local unauthenticated attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability by using an alternate path to bypass authentication in order to gain full access to the system...

CVE-2020-5384

CVE-2020-5384 affects RSA MFA Agent 2.0 for Microsoft Windows. The connected sources describe an authentication bypass vulnerability that an attacker with local access and no authentication could exploit via an alternate path to gain full control of the system. The material does not provide concr...

PT-2020-18444 · Rsa +1 · Rsa Mfa Agent +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: RSA MFA Agent 2.0 for Microsoft Windows Description: The issue allows a local unauthenticated attacker to potentially exploit an authentication bypass vulnerability. This could be achieved by using an alternate path to bypass authentication,...

How bad bots are targeting the healthcare sector

Credential cracking, or password spraying, is one of the most effective ways for cybercriminals to get access to user accounts. It refers to the brute-force automated cracking, or pairing of usernames and passwords by using sophisticated high-speed bots. According to a National Cyber Awareness...

The world is your authentication and identity oyster

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligence Security Association guest blog series. To learn more about MISA, go here. The world is your authentication/identity oyster If you’re older than 10 years of age you’ve undoubtedly heard the phrase “The world is your oyster.” This basically mean...