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...

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...

Enable Google's New "Advanced Protection" If You Don't Want to Get Hacked

It is good to be paranoid when it comes to cybersecurity. Google already provides various advanced features such as login alerts and two-factor authentication to keep your Google account secure. However, if you are extra paranoid, Google has just introduced its strongest ever security feature,...

iOS Password Prompts are Ripe for Abuse

Apple’s policy to repeatedly ask users for their iTunes password needlessly exposes iOS device owners to possible phishing attacks, according a mobile app developer Felix Krause. Krause’s beef with Apple is that too often and seemingly at random times, popups deliver a dialogue box for users to...

Practical Tips for Personal Online Security

As a cybersecurity professional I write about enterprise security on a daily basis. But with the start of National Cyber Security Awareness Month NCSAM I was inspired to switch gears and write about personal security given this week’s theme of simple steps to online safety for consumers. So, with...

CVE-2015-7225

Tinfoil Devise-two-factor before 2.0.0 does not strictly follow section 5.2 of RFC 6238 and does not "burn" a successfully validated one-time password aka OTP, which allows remote or physically proximate attackers with a target user's login credentials to log in as said user by obtaining the OTP...

CVE-2015-7225

Concretely, CVE-2015-7225 affects devise-two-factor prior to v4.0.2, where an OTP can be reused for one immediately trailing time interval due to an incomplete fix. Multiple connected records (e.g., CVE-2021-43177 references) confirm the vulnerability pattern and the remediation: upgrade to devis...

Error: "32 authentication policies are already bound" While Binding Authentication Policy

When multiple policies two-factor are used for one virtual server with the total number of policies exceeding 32, there will be error message popping up "32 authentication policies are already bound"...

Instagram Hacker Puts 6 Million Celebrities Personal Data Up For Sale On DoxaGram

It's now official, Instagram has suffered a massive data breach, and reportedly an unknown hacker has stolen personal details of more than 6 million Instagram accounts. Just yesterday, we reported that Instagram had patched a critical API vulnerability that allowed the attacker to access phone...

Instagram Suffers Data Breach! Hacker Stole Contact Info of High-Profile Users

Instagram has recently suffered a possibly serious data breach with hackers gaining access to the phone numbers and email addresses for many "high-profile" users. The 700 million-user-strong, Facebook-owned photo sharing service has currently notified all of its verified users that an unknown...

Someone Hacked Selena Gomez Instagram, Shared Nude Justin Bieber Photos

The highest followers account on Instagram owned by Selena Gomez has recently been hacked with unknown hackers posting a bunch of nude photographs of her ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber on her account. The latest hack is not part of the ongoing Fappening events affecting a majority of celebrities by...

Fappening 2017: More Celebrity Photos Hacked and Leaked Online

It seems like celebrities have not taken their security seriously, which once again resulted in the leaking of personal photographs of more a-listed celebrities. Dozens of personal and intimate photos of Anne Hathaway, Miley Cyrus, Kristen Stewart, Katharine McPhee, golfer Tiger Woods and his ex...

Gmail for iOS Adds Anti-Phishing Feature that Warns of Suspicious Links

Phishing — is an older style of cyber-attack but remains one of the most common and efficient attack vectors for attackers, as a majority of banking malware and various ransomware attacks begin with a user clicking on a malicious link or opening a dangerous attachment in an email. Phishing has...

Certificate Based Authentication : Troubleshooting steps

3. . If the value forDS Mapper usage isDisabled , run the following command to enable it: netsh http add sslcert ipport=0.0.0.0:443 certhash=20c70a6c6e66c3f82cf6098b7bcd2859486ecd10 appid=4dc3e181-e14b-4a21-b022-59fc669b0914 certstorename=my verifyclientcertrevocation=Enable...

CopyKittens Exposed by ClearSky and Trend Micro

CopyKittens is a cyberespionage group that ClearSky has been reporting on since 2015, tracking their attacks on government-related bodies around the world. Trend Micro has supported this research at several points, including for their latest report released today on the group’s vast espionage...

How to sacrifice security using a public YubiKey Linux guides

This month I moved to YubiKey as a authentication token for my personal daily usage. One of the convents applications of this device it’s a login screen authentication. I found some popular guides how to use YubiKey with a Linux lock screen tools and these guides surprised me. Please find these...

Nextcloud: Password of failed (2FA) login attempt is stored in log

If I try to log in on Webdav with my usual Nextcloud password, it doesn't work due to 2FA. I need an application password. The password of a failed login attempt by any user is stored plain text in the log: ...OCA\\DAV\\Connector\\Sabre\\Auth-validateUserPass'matthes', 'THEPASSWORD'... Even...