National Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Security Pros Offer Top Tips for Staying Safe Online

Held every October, CISA’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month NCSAM aims to educate organizations and individuals about the ever-changing field of cybersecurity and encourage proper security practices. In honor of this event, we rounded up six key tips from our network of experts to help you...

Lock and Code S1Ep18: Finding consumer value in Cybersecurity Awareness Month with Jamie Court

This week on Lock and Code, we discuss the top security headlines generated right here on Labs and around the Internet. In addition, we talk to Jamie Court, president of the non-profit advocacy group Consumer Watchdog, about the consumer value in Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Launched initially ...

NICER Protocol Deep Dive: Internet Exposure of IMAP and POP

Welcome to the NICER Protocol Deep Dive blog series! When we started researching what all was out on the internet way back in January, we had no idea we'd end up with a hefty, 137-page tome of a research report. The sheer length of such a thing might put off folks who might otherwise learn a thin...

Radius Challenge Response Timeout Between NetScaler Gateway and Radius Server

When using two-factor challenge/response authentication through RADIUS, the NetScaler Gateway imposes a session timeout for the RADIUS challenge/response dialogue. In case of SMS token code delivery, there might be long delays between the challenge displayed to the user and the actual submission ...

What's New in Customer Identity and Access Management

We all know that the ability to accurately identify, understand, and engage our customers across multiple channels and digital touchpoints is absolutely vital to the digital customer experience and business. This couldn't be more important in the current environment as we continue to move more of...

HackerOne: 2020-10-09 Credential Stuffing Attack

Executive summary On October 4, 2020 and October 5, 2020, an attacker launched two credential stuffing attacks against HackerOne.com. On October 9, 2020, HackerOne’s Security team noticed the attack during their weekly audit of anomalies in their log aggregation platform, leading to the Incident...

Amazon Prime Day—8 tips for safer shopping

Avid Amazon Prime Day shoppers may have been worried theyd missed it this year—thanks coronavirus. Fear not, last month Amazon announced Prime Day will take place three months after its original annual date, beginning today. And this year, itll take place over two days, rather than one. This coul...

Cyber Security Month. What can you do?

October is Cyber Security Month, when organisations like the CISA, the ECSM, and many more promote initiatives to help raise security awareness. Around the world companies are dedicating time to improve staff security awareness, and its a really busy time for us. You may be thinking you’d like to...

Facebook 'SilentFade' Malware Attack Stole Credentials For Years

Facebook has detailed a wide-scale Chinese malware campaign that targeted its ad platform for years and siphoned $4 million from users’ advertising accounts. The campaign was addressed by the social media’s security teams after it first became active. Dubbed SilentFade short for “Silently running...

Zivver: Two-factor authentication can be disabled when logged in without 2fa or password confirmation

When a user performed sensitive actions on an account, he/she didn't have to provide his/her password after some inactivity. This issue is now addressed and to perform actions related to account security, the user has to provide his/her password before continuing...

Activision Refutes Claims of 500K-Account Hack

After reports surfaced that 500,000 Activision accounts may have been hacked, impacting online Call of Duty CoD players, the gaming giant is disputing the claim. The alleged breach was first flagged by the oRemyy account on Twitter, and was quickly amplified by others, who claimed that accounts...

CVE-2020-3977

VMware Horizon DaaS 7.x and 8.x before 8.0.1 Update 1 contains a broken authentication vulnerability due to a flaw in the way it handled the first factor authentication. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow an attacker to bypass two-factor authentication process. In order to exploit th...

CVE-2020-3977

CVE-2020-3977 affects VMware Horizon DaaS 7.x and 8.x prior to 8.0.1 Update 1. Root cause: broken authentication due to how first-factor authentication is handled, enabling potential bypass of two-factor authentication for an attacker with a legitimate Horizon DaaS account. Impact: partial integr...

GitLab Session Fixation Vulnerability

GitLab is an open source application developed using Ruby on Rails that implements a self-hosted Git project repository that can be accessed through a web interface for public and private projects. A session fixation vulnerability exists in GitLab versions prior to 13.1.10, 13.2.8, and 13.3.4. Th...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-13308

A vulnerability was discovered in GitLab versions before 13.1.10, 13.2.8 and 13.3.4. A user without 2 factor authentication enabled could be prohibited from accessing GitLab by being invited into a project that had 2 factor authentication inheritance...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-13307

A vulnerability was discovered in GitLab versions before 13.1.10, 13.2.8 and 13.3.4. GitLab was not revoking current user sessions when 2 factor authentication was activated allowing a malicious user to maintain their access...

PT-2020-13448 · Gitlab · Gitlab

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: GitLab versions prior to 13.1.10 GitLab versions prior to 13.2.8 GitLab versions prior to 13.3.4 Description: A security issue was found in GitLab where it failed to revoke current user sessions when two-factor authentication was activated,...

PT-2020-13449 · Gitlab · Gitlab

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: GitLab versions prior to 13.1.10 GitLab versions prior to 13.2.8 GitLab versions prior to 13.3.4 Description: A vulnerability was discovered that could prohibit a user without 2 factor authentication enabled from accessing GitLab if they are...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-13304

A vulnerability was discovered in GitLab versions before 13.1.10, 13.2.8 and 13.3.4. Same 2 factor Authentication secret code was generated which resulted an attacker to maintain access under certain conditions...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-13297

A vulnerability was discovered in GitLab versions before 13.1.10, 13.2.8 and 13.3.4. When 2 factor authentication was enabled for groups, a malicious user could bypass that restriction by sending a specific query to the API endpoint...