WARNING – New Phishing Attack That Even Most Vigilant Users Could Fall For

How do you check if a website asking for your credentials is fake or legit to log in? By checking if the URL is correct? By checking if the website address is not a homograph? By checking if the site is using HTTPS? Or using software or browser extensions that detect phishing domains? Well, if yo...

Fedora 29 : phpMyAdmin (2019-09ae31d880)

Upstream announcement: Security fix: phpMyAdmin 4.8.5 is released The phpMyAdmin team announces the release of phpMyAdmin version 4.8.5. Among other bug fixes, this contains several important security fixes. Upgrading is highly recommended for all users. The security fixes involve : - Arbitrary...

Theory: 'Simple Hack' Behind Bezos’ Alleged Compromising Images

Researchers are shooing away theories of an elaborate “deep state” hacking plot against Jeff Bezos tied to the alleged tawdry images of him and girlfriend Lauren Sanchez. They say, alleged images that Bezos claims that the National Enquirer is threatening to release were likely obtained via a...

Google's New Tool Alerts When You Use Compromised Credentials On Any Site

With so many data breaches happening almost every week, it has become difficult for users to know if their credentials are already in possession of hackers or being circulated freely across the Internet. Thankfully, Google has a solution. Today, February 5, on Safer Internet Day, Google launches ...

Has two-factor authentication been defeated? A spotlight on 2FA’s latest challenge

Multiple news reports about the defeat of two-factor authentication 2FA have been making rounds lately. In November 2018, our friends at ESET discovered a purported Android battery utility tool called “Optimization Android” from a third-party app store. This app was designed to steal money from a...

Yet Another Bypass: Is 2FA Broken? Authentication Experts Weigh In

A penetration testing tool published by Polish security researcher Piotr Duszyński can bypass login protections for accounts protected by two-factor authentication 2FA. In his write-up on the tool, which is dubbed Modlishka, meaning “mantis” in English, he asked, “is 2FA broken?” It’s a question...

WordPress Two Factor Authentication plugin <= 1.3.12 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability found by Martijn Korse in WordPress Two Factor Authentication plugin versions = 1.3.12. Solution Update the WordPress Two Factor Authentication plugin to the latest available version at least 1.3.13...

CFP Time: Missing Two Factor Authentication in /admin/login

Hello Team, First of all this report is just mainly concern for Suggested security improvements based on your policy page. If and only if not mean possible, please do let me know. Thanks! INTRODUCTION Administrative panel is one of the main entry point for the website owner to manage their web ap...

Hijacking Online Accounts Via Hacked Voicemail Systems

LEIPZIG, GERMANY – Voicemail systems are vulnerable to compromise via brute-force attacks against the four-digit personal identification numbers PINs that protect them. Researchers say a malicious user can thus access the voicemail system to then take over online accounts for services like...

X (Formerly Twitter): Ability to perform actions (Tweet, Retweet, DM) and other actions, unauthenticated, on any account with SMS enabled.

Summary: By knowing the mobile phone number associated with a Twitter account, or by using random mobile phone numbers! It is possible to perform the following actions against a target without their knowledge or interaction. With no account takeover scenario. It's a case of, if I know the mobile...

Phishing Campaign Toolkit: King Phisher

King Phisher is a tool for testing and promoting user awareness by simulating real world phishing attacks. It features an easy to use, yet very flexible architecture allowing full control over both emails and server content. King Phisher can be used to run campaigns ranging from simple awareness...

CVE-2018-20231

Cross Site Request Forgery CSRF in the two-factor-authentication plugin before 1.3.13 for WordPress allows remote attackers to disable 2FA via the tfaenabletfa parameter due to missing nonce validation...

CVE-2018-20231

CVE-2018-20231 affects the WordPress Two Factor Authentication plugin (pre-1.3.13). The vulnerability is a CSRF flaw that allows remote attackers to disable 2FA by triggering tfa_enable_tfa due to missing nonce validation. Impact is partial to high: it can disable two-factor protection, leaving a...

Two Factor Authentication <= 1.3.12 - Disable Two Factor Authentication CSRF

According to the changelog: "Fix a logged-in CSRF vulnerability reported by Martijn Korse www.bitnesswise.com. Due to a missing nonce check, if an attacker was able to persuade a personally-targetted victim who was currently logged in to their WordPress account to visit a personally-crafted for t...

Real-Time Attacks Against Two-Factor Authentication

Attackers are targeting two-factor authentication systems: Attackers working on behalf of the Iranian government collected detailed information on targets and used that knowledge to write spear-phishing emails that were tailored to the targets' level of operational security, researchers with...

Bad Consumer Security Advice

There are lots of articles about there telling people how to better secure their computers and online accounts. While I agree with some of it, this article contains some particularly bad advice: 1. Never, ever, ever use public unsecured Wi-Fi such as the Wi-Fi in a café, hotel or airport. To...

Instagram Accidentally Exposed Some Users' Passwords In Plaintext

Instagram has recently patched a security issue in its website that might have accidentally exposed some of its users' passwords in plain text. The company recently started notifying affected users of a security bug that resides in a newly offered feature called "Download Your Data" that allows...

keycloak: brute force protection not working for the entire login workflow

A flaw was found in Keycloak 4.2.1.Final, 4.3.0.Final. When TOPT enabled, an improper implementation of the Brute Force detection algorithm will not enforce its protection measures...

Troy Hunt on Passwords

Troy Hunt has a good essay about why passwords are here to stay, despite all their security problems: This is why passwords aren't going anywhere in the foreseeable future and why insert thing here isn't going to kill them. No amount of focusing on how bad passwords are or how many accounts have...

CVE-2018-16465

Nextcloud Server is affected when used with versions prior to 14.0.0. The issue is a missing state that would have enforced a second factor at login if the 2FA provider failed to load, effectively allowing a 2FA bypass under certain conditions. This vulnerability is described in advisories NC-SA-...