Securing financial data of the future: behavioral biometrics explained

Some of us would be pretty excited about a brave, new passwordless world. Gone would be the days of having to write down 27 passwords and post them beside monitor screens. Or having to yell them out loud to a colleague on the other side of the room. For banks and other financial institutions, a...

VMware Horizon Security Bypass Vulnerability

VMware Horizon DaaS is a set of virtual desktop platforms from the U.S. company VMware VMware built specifically for delivering desktops and applications as a cloud computing service. The platform provides features such as multi-desktop mode and multi-data center management. A security...

CVE-2018-6960

VMware Horizon DaaS 7.x before 8.0.0 contains a broken authentication vulnerability that may allow an attacker to bypass two-factor authentication. Note: In order to exploit this issue, an attacker must have a legitimate account on Horizon DaaS...

Authentication flaw

VMware Horizon DaaS 7.x before 8.0.0 contains a broken authentication vulnerability that may allow an attacker to bypass two-factor authentication. Note: In order to exploit this issue, an attacker must have a legitimate account on Horizon DaaS...

CVE-2018-6960

VMware Horizon DaaS 7.x before 8.0.0 contains a broken authentication vulnerability that may allow an attacker to bypass two-factor authentication. Note: In order to exploit this issue, an attacker must have a legitimate account on Horizon DaaS...

CVE-2018-6960

VMware Horizon DaaS 7.x before 8.0.0 contains a broken authentication vulnerability that may allow an attacker to bypass two-factor authentication. Note: In order to exploit this issue, an attacker must have a legitimate account on Horizon DaaS...

CVE-2018-6960: Improper Authentication

VMware Horizon DaaS 7.x before 8.0.0 contains a broken authentication vulnerability that may allow an attacker to bypass two-factor authentication. Note: In order to exploit this issue, an attacker must have a legitimate account on Horizon DaaS...

PT-2018-17840

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VMware Horizon DaaS versions 7.x before 8.0.0 Description The issue is related to a broken authentication mechanism that could allow an attacker to bypass two-factor authentication. To exploit this, an attacker must have a legitimate account o...

Two-Factor Authentication: What is it and why do I need it to stay safe online?

Today, Americans are living more and more of their lives on the internet. We shop, bank, socialize, work and play online. But as our digital lives become increasingly important, they are also exposed to greater risks. Hackers are lurking around every corner ready to steal our identities, drain ou...

How to Fight Mobile Number Port-out Scams

T-Mobile, AT&T and other mobile carriers are reminding customers to take advantage of free services that can block identity thieves from easily "porting" your mobile number out to another provider, which allows crooks to intercept your calls and messages while your phone goes dark. Tips for...

Nextcloud: twofactor_auth bypassable if provider fails to load

Just want to preface this by saying that this is probably not a significant vulnerability, as it requires that the server either have recently been incorrectly upgraded or otherwise misconfigured. However in the administration of my own personal NextCloud instance I have hit this several times...

ReelPhish: A Real-Time Two-Factor Phishing Tool

Social Engineering and Two-Factor Authentication Social engineering campaigns are a constant threat to businesses because they target the weakest chain in security: people. A typical attack would capture a victim’s username and password and store it for an attacker to reuse later. Two-Factor...

CVE-2018-6389 WordPress Parameter Resource Consumption Remote DoS

Yesterday Monday, February 5, 2018, a zero-day vulnerability in WordPress core was disclosed, which allows an attacker to perform a denial of service DoS attack against a vulnerable application. The vulnerability exists in the modules used to load JS and CSS files. These modules were designed to...

A week in security (January 22 – January 28)

Last week on Labs, we analyzed a rogue app outbreak on Twitter, took a look at how Singapore's government is faring with network defense, and rolled out our 2017 State of Malware report. We also became visionaries in Gartner's Magic Quadrant report and explored a VR data mishap. Other news Man...

Cybersecurity New Year’s resolutions, you say? Why not.

It's mid-January, and oh, how time flies. It wasn’t long since we bid farewell to 2017 and welcomed the new year with renewed hope and vigor. Of course, with such positivity comes a sense of an equally favorable outlook for the year ahead. However good that may sound, being faced with a tabula ra...

WordPress Two-Factor Authentication – Clockwork SMS plugin <=1.0.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Reflected Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability found by Elias Dimopoulos in WordPress Two-Factor Authentication – Clockwork SMS plugin versions =1.0.3 Solution Update the WordPress Two-Factor Authentication – Clockwork SMS plugin to the latest available version at least 1.1.0...

BankBot Returns On Play Store – A Never Ending Android Malware Story

Even after so many efforts by Google for making its Play Store away from malware, shady apps somehow managed to fool its anti-malware protections and infect people with malicious software. A team of researchers from several security firms has uncovered two new malware campaigns targeting Google...

CVE-2017-16634

In Joomla! before 3.8.2, a bug allowed third parties to bypass a user's 2-factor authentication method...

Part 2: All rise! Mind these digital crimes and arm your business against them

In the first installment of this two-part series, we advised consumers to stay on top of a selection of up-and-coming crimes to significantly lessen the chances of encountering them in the future. For this post, we're going to look into digital crimes that keeps small businesses and large...

Google’s ‘Advanced Protection’ Tools Trade Ease-of-Use for Security

Government officials and journalists who use Google services were the first to be invited to use advanced Gmail account security services announced Tuesday. Experts say it’s no security panacea, but tools provided under the Google banner called Advanced Protection empower any private Google users...