Paypal Two-Factor Authentication Bypass

Today, the 5th of August, I release my Paypal 2FA bypass exploit. It's been exactly 2 months since I've reported this bug, and due to the simplicity of it, I believe I've given Paypal long enough to fix it. It's still not fixed. Full blog can be found here: http://blog.internot.info/ My website:...

Twitter Gains Team From Mitro Password Management Company

Twitter has announced that a cloud-based password management company called Mitro has joined the Twitter team, and all of Mitro’s code is now free and open source. Mitro’s offering a secure password manager that’s meant to help distributed teams share passwords for accounts and services. The...

NOAA, Satellite Data, Riddled with Vulnerabilities

The informational systems that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA run are fraught with vulnerabilities and what the U.S. Department of Commerce deems “significant security deficiencies” that could leave it vulnerable to cyber attacks. That’s according to the findings of an...

Phishers Use Luis Suarez Bite as Bait

The World Cup is the most popular sporting event on the planet, and not just among sports fans; attackers and scammers of all stripes love it as well, as it presents a unique opportunity to separate victims from their money. Phishing and malware scams tied to the World Cup in Brazil have been...

Flaw Lets Attackers Bypass PayPal Two-Factor Authentication

There’s a vulnerability in the way that PayPal handles certain requests from mobile clients that can allow an attacker to bypass the two-factor authentication mechanism for the service and transfer money from a victim’s account to any recipient he chooses. The flaw lies in the way that the PayPal...

Authentication flaw

The Google Authenticator login module 6.x-1.x before 6.x-1.2 and 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.4 for Drupal does not properly identify user account names, which might allow remote attackers to bypass the two-factor authentication requirement via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2013-4177

The Google Authenticator login module 6.x-1.x before 6.x-1.2 and 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.4 for Drupal does not properly identify user account names, which might allow remote attackers to bypass the two-factor authentication requirement via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2013-4177

The CVE-2013-4177 entry refers to the Drupal Google Authenticator login module (versions 6.x-1.x before 6.x-1.2 and 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.4). The underlying issue is that the module does not properly identify user account names, which could allow remote attackers to bypass the two‑factor authentic...

Apple Ransomware Targeting iCloud Users Hits Australia

A handful of iPhone, iPad and Mac users, largely confined to Australia, awoke Tuesday to discover their devices had been taken hostage by ransomware. Instead of their normal home screens, users were greeted with a message promising that their devices would be unlocked if a ransom, somewhere betwe...

Bitly Developing Two Factor Authentication Following Compromise

The link-shortening service Bitly announced late last week that it’s ramping up its development of two-factor authentication following a compromise that leaked user information on Thursday. The breach, first discovered Thursday morning, spilled users’ email addresses, encrypted salted and hashed...

DUO-PSA-2014-005: Duo Product Security Advisory

Duo Product Security Advisory Advisory ID: DUO-PSA-2014-005 Publication Date: 2014-05-12 Revision Date: 2014-05-27 Status: Confirmed, Fixed Document Revision: 3 Overview Duo Security has identified an issue in its Credential-Provider based Remote Desktop Protocol RDP integrations e.g. those...

Twitter Upgrades Account Security Features

Twitter has made a couple of changes to the service’s login process to help prevent account takeovers and enable users to reset their passwords in a simpler way. A Twitter account is among the more valuable assets for an attacker who is targeting a specific person. Accounts typically are tied to ...

Twitter Enables Password Reset With SMS and Suspicious Login Notifications

The popular social media site Twitter is rolling out a couple of new features to its login process to help users prevent their account in a more secure way and restore access to their account if they forget their accounts’ password. For tighten up the security measures Twitter is launching two...

Target Accelerates Chip-and-Pin Roll Out, Hires New CIO

As Target continues to deal with the consequences of its massive data breach last year, the company is accelerating plans to move to a full chip-and-pin system for its branded credit and debit cards, and also plans to have terminals capable of accepting chip-and-pin cards in all of its nearly 2,0...

2014 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR

Most of us—hopefully—awaken every day, shower and brush our teeth. If you own a home, you patch a leaky roof and paint the shutters so they don’t rot. You own a vehicle, you change the oil when you’re supposed to and make sure the brakes work the way they’re supposed to. It’s simple hygiene. Yet ...

iBanking Android Malware targeting Facebook Users with Web Injection techniques

iBanking is nothing but a mobile banking Trojan app which impersonates itself as a so-called 'Security App' for Android devices and distributed through HTML injection attacks on banking sites, in order to deceive its victims. Recently, its source code has been leaked online through an underground...

Data Breaches Show Difficulty of Defenders' Task

When attackers broke into the network of the University of Maryland last month, the university’s wasn’t sure how to react. The organization had never had a major security incident before, and this one qualified as major: 310,000 Social Security numbers and other information was gone. And then thr...

Android iBanking Trojan Source Code Leaked Online

Smartphone is the need of everyone today and so the first target of most of the Cyber Criminals. Malware authors are getting to know their market and are changing their way of operations. Since last year we have seen a rise in the number of hackers moving from the Blackhat into the Greyhat. The...

DuoSecurity Finds Two-Factor Authentication Vulnerability

Hosted two-factor authentication firm Duo Security acknowledged late last week that it discovered a vulnerability in its WordPress plugin duowordpress plugin that could allow a user to bypass two-factor authentication 2FA on a multisite network. Jon Oberheide, one of Duo’s founders, stressed last...

SOL14969 - BIG-IP Edge and FirePass client information leakage vulnerability CVE-2013-6024

Vulnerability Recommended Actions If you are running a version listed in the Versions known to be vulnerable column, you can eliminate this vulnerability by upgrading to a version listed in the Versions known to be not vulnerable column. If the table lists only an older version than what you are...