Threat Source newsletter (Feb. 23, 2023) — Social media sites are making extra security a paid feature

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Social medias latest business plan seems to be charging for security. Twitter recently announced a plan to make SMS-based two-factor authentication a paid service as part of Twitter Blue -- asking users to pay either $8 or $11 monthly...

How to set up two-factor authentication on Twitter using an app

If you use text based authentication as an additional level of security for your Twitter account, you may be aware that this option will be reserved for paying Twitter Blue subscribers come mid-March. This post will explain how to enable app based authentication. We found it easier to do on our...

Microsoft shifts to a comprehensive SaaS security solution

Software as a service SaaS apps are ubiquitous, hybrid work is the new normal, and protecting them and the important data they store is a big challenge for organizations. Today, 59 percent of security professionals find the SaaS sprawl challenging to manage1 and have identified cloud...

CVE-2021-22302

There is an out-of-bound read vulnerability in Taurus-AL00A 10.0.0.1C00E1R1P1. A module does not verify the some input. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious input through specific app. This could cause out-of-bound, compromising normal service...

Reddit Breach Highlights Limits of SMS-Based Authentication

Reddit.com today disclosed that a data breach exposed some internal data, as well as email addresses and passwords for some Reddit users. As Web site breaches go, this one doesn't seem too severe. What's interesting about the incident is that it showcases once again why relying on mobile text...

The vulnerability of the Android operating system, which allows a hacker to increase their privileges

The vulnerability of the Widevine QSEE TrustZone application in the Android operating system is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to enhance their privileges through a specially created application that utilizes QSEECOM...