Google warns some users that FancyBear’s been prowling around

APT28, also known as FancyBear, is at the heart of another targeted campaign. This time, it’s sniffing around users of Google services. Some 14,000 people have been notified about a spear phish attempt looking to compromise accounts and access their files. When did this happen? Sometime late...

Google to auto-enrol users, YouTubers into 2SV

Googles announced some changes to how its helping millions of its users stay safe and secure. The biggest of those changes is that it plans to auto-enrol its users in to two-step verification, or 2SV. 2SV adds an extra layer when logging into your account and the additional step happens after you...

Google to turn on 2-factor authentication by default for 150 million users

Google has announced plans to automatically enroll about 150 million users into its two-factor authentication scheme by the end of the year as part of its ongoing efforts to prevent unauthorized access to accounts and improve security. In addition, the internet giant said it also intends to requi...

3 key resources to accelerate your passwordless journey

Every organization today faces password-related challenges—phishing campaigns, productivity loss, and password management costs to name just a few. The risks now outweigh the benefits when it comes to passwords. Even the strongest passwords are easily phish-able and vulnerable to attacks, such as...

Beyond MFA: Rethinking the Authentication Key

You have to hand it to the cyber-thieves: They have proven extremely adept at defeating security measures once thought reliable. Case in point: multifactor authentication MFA. While two-factor authentication 2FA using push text notifications has become the de-facto standard for login security, ba...

GitHub Prepares to Move Beyond Passwords

GitHub, the ubiquitous host for software development and version control and unfortunate target of a steady pitter-patter of attacks targeting the same, is now supporting security keys when using Git over SSH. In a post on Monday, GitHub security engineer Kevin Jones said that this is the next st...

GitHub Will Now Support Security Keys for SSH Git Operations

By Deeba Ahmed To prevent account takeover in SSH Git operations, GitHub has now added support for security keys. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: GitHub Will Now Support Security Keys for SSH Git Operations...

How to enable Facebook’s hardware key authentication for iOS and Android

Since 2017 desktop users have had the opportunity to use physical security keys to log in to their Facebook accounts. Now iOS and Android users have the same option too. Physical security keys are a more secure option for two-factor authentication 2FA than SMS which is vulnerable to SIM swap...

New Attack Could Let Hackers Clone Your Google Titan 2FA Security Keys

Hardware security keys—such as those from Google and Yubico—are considered the most secure means to protect accounts from phishing and takeover attacks. But a new research published on Thursday demonstrates how an adversary in possession of such a two-factor authentication 2FA device can clone it...

New Attack Could Let Hackers Clone Your Google Titan 2FA Security Keys

Hardware security keys—such as those from Google and Yubico—are considered the most secure means to protect accounts from phishing and takeover attacks. But a new research published on Thursday demonstrates how an adversary in possession of such a two-factor authentication 2FA device can clone it...

Design/Logic Flaw

An electromagnetic-wave side-channel issue was discovered on NXP SmartMX / P5x security microcontrollers and A7x secure authentication microcontrollers, with CryptoLib through v2.9. It allows attackers to extract the ECDSA private key after extensive physical access and consequently produce a...

CVE-2021-3011

The CVE-2021-3011 family describes an electromagnetic-wave side-channel vulnerability in NXP SmartMX/P5x security microcontrollers and A7x secure authentication microcontrollers, affecting CryptoLib up to v2.9. The issue enables extraction of the ECDSA private key with extensive physical access, ...

CVE-2021-3011

An electromagnetic-wave side-channel issue was discovered on NXP SmartMX / P5x security microcontrollers and A7x secure authentication microcontrollers, with CryptoLib through v2.9. It allows attackers to extract the ECDSA private key after extensive physical access and consequently produce a...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-754.33.1.OL6 - Update genkey bug 25599697 2.6.32-754.33.1 - message scsi: mptscsih: Fix read sense data size Tomas Henzl 1824907 2.6.32-754.32.1 - wireless libertas: make lbsibssjoinexisting return error code on rates overflow Jarod Wilson 1776569 - wireless libertas: don't exit from...

CVE-2020-12142

IPSec UDP key material can be retrieved from machine-to-machine interfaces and human-accessible interfaces by a user with admin credentials. Such a user, with the required system knowledge, could use this material to decrypt in-flight communication. 2. The vulnerability requires administrative...

OpenSSH now supports FIDO U2F security keys for 2-factor authentication

Here's excellent news for sysadmins. You can now use a physical security key as hardware-based two-factor authentication to securely log into a remote system via SSH protocol. OpenSSH, one of the most widely used open-source implementations of the Secure Shell SSH Protocol, yesterday announced th...

Google's Giving Out Security Keys to Help Protect Campaigns

Candidates can also get trained up on how to use Advanced Protection to keep their accounts safe...

Google Account Security Keys Launch for iPhone

Google has extended its Advanced Protection Program for account security to the iPhone platform, aimed at those that are the most-targeted by cybercriminals: Members of political campaign teams, journalists, activists, executives, employees in regulated industries such as finance or government, a...

The vulnerability of the buffer in the dev.c software for working with YubiKey security keys allows a perpetrator to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the buffer in the dev.c software for working with YubiKey security keys is related to the execution of operations beyond the boundaries of the memory buffer. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a perpetrator to execute arbitrary code...

The vulnerability of the Dell EMC Avamar Server backup system and the DELL EMC Integrated Data Protection system lies in the lack of protection for operational data, allowing attackers to obtain the SSL/TLS connection private keys.

The vulnerability of the Dell EMC Avamar Server backup system and the DELL EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance lies in the lack of protection for operational data. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to obtain the SSL/TLS connection secrets...