Using Fake Reviews to Find Dangerous Extensions

Fake, positive reviews have infiltrated nearly every corner of life online these days, confusing consumers while offering an unwelcome advantage to fraudsters and sub-par products everywhere. Happily, identifying and tracking these fake reviewer accounts is often the easiest way to spot scams...

Prevent user enumeration using Guard or the new Authenticator-based Security

Description ----------- The ability to enumerate users was possible without relevant permissions due to different exception messages depending on whether the user existed or not. It was also possible to enumerate users by using a timing attack, by comparing time elapsed when authenticating an...

GHSA-5PV8-PPVJ-4H68 Prevent user enumeration using Guard or the new Authenticator-based Security

Description ----------- The ability to enumerate users was possible without relevant permissions due to different exception messages depending on whether the user existed or not. It was also possible to enumerate users by using a timing attack, by comparing time elapsed when authenticating an...

CVE-2021-21424 Prevent user enumeration using Guard or the new Authenticator-based Security

Symfony is a PHP framework for web and console applications and a set of reusable PHP components. The ability to enumerate users was possible without relevant permissions due to different handling depending on whether the user existed or not when attempting to use the switch users functionality. ...

TeaBot Trojan Targets Banks via Hijacked Android Handsets

Researchers have discovered an Android trojan that can steal victims’ SMS messages and credentials and completely take over devices. The trojan, dubbed TeaBot, is aimed at committing fraud against at least 60 banks in Europe. Join Threatpost for “Fortifying Your Business Against Ransomware, DDoS ...

Out-of-Bounds Read

Exim is vulnerable to out of bound read. The vulnerability exists due to the SPA authenticator that could result in SPA/NTLM authentication bypass in auths/spa.c and auths/auth-spa.c...

Security vs User Journey

Something I often think about is how my recommendations for clients to fix small security issues can spoil / complicate their users journey. UX matters I understand that UX is hugely important, even subtle changes can influence whether a journey is completed or abandoned. The difference between...

CSRF Vuln can expose user's QRcode

Impact When a user is setting up two-factor authentication using an authenticator app, a QRcode is generated and made available via a GET request to /tf-qrcode. Since GETs do not have any CSRF protection, it is possible a malicious 3rd party could access the QRcode and therefore gain access to...

HackerOne: Changing the 2FA secret key and backup codes without knowing the 2FA OTP

Summary: After the setup of 2FA, disabling or editing it should require the 2FA OTP. But it can be bypassed. Steps To Reproduce: 1 Sign in to a new HackerOne account. 2 Setup 2FA; and 3 Try to disable it without knowing the OTP. You can't, you need to know the Authentication Code or Backup Code...

Security Advisory YSA-2021-03 | Yubico

A security update for pam-u2f resolves a logic issue that, depending on the pam-u2f configuration and the application used, could lead to a local PIN bypass. This issue does not allow user presence touch or cryptographic signature verification to be bypassed, so an attacker would still need to...

[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: wpa_supplicant-2.9-11.fc34

wpasupplicant is a WPA Supplicant for Linux, BSD and Windows with support for WPA and WPA2 IEEE 802.11i / RSN. Supplicant is the IEEE 802.1X/WPA component that is used in the client stations. It implements key negotiation with a WPA Authenticator and it controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11...

gitea -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Gitea Team reports for release 1.14.0: Validate email in external authenticator registration form Ensure validation occurs on clone addresses too...

Unauthorized Access Vulnerability in Microsoft Authenticator

Microsoft Authenticator is an application developed by Microsoft related to secure login verification of accounts. An unauthorized access vulnerability exists in Microsoft Authenticator. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to gain unauthorized access to user information...

[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: wpa_supplicant-2.9-5.fc32

wpasupplicant is a WPA Supplicant for Linux, BSD and Windows with support for WPA and WPA2 IEEE 802.11i / RSN. Supplicant is the IEEE 802.1X/WPA component that is used in the client stations. It implements key negotiation with a WPA Authenticator and it controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11...

[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: wpa_supplicant-2.9-7.fc33

wpasupplicant is a WPA Supplicant for Linux, BSD and Windows with support for WPA and WPA2 IEEE 802.11i / RSN. Supplicant is the IEEE 802.1X/WPA component that is used in the client stations. It implements key negotiation with a WPA Authenticator and it controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11...

Italy CERT Warns of a New Credential Stealing Android Malware

Researchers have disclosed a new family of Android malware that abuses accessibility services in the device to hijack user credentials and record audio and video. Dubbed "Oscorp" by Italy's CERT-AGID and spotted by AddressIntel, the malware "induces the user to install an accessibility service wi...

CVE-2021-0215

On Juniper Networks Junos EX series, QFX Series, MX Series and SRX branch series devices, a memory leak occurs every time the 802.1X authenticator port interface flaps which can lead to other processes, such as the pfex process, responsible for packet forwarding, to crash and restart. An...

CVE-2021-0215

On Juniper Networks Junos EX series, QFX Series, MX Series and SRX branch series devices, a memory leak occurs every time the 802.1X authenticator port interface flaps which can lead to other processes, such as the pfex process, responsible for packet forwarding, to crash and restart. An...

Memory corruption

On Juniper Networks Junos EX series, QFX Series, MX Series and SRX branch series devices, a memory leak occurs every time the 802.1X authenticator port interface flaps which can lead to other processes, such as the pfex process, responsible for packet forwarding, to crash and restart. An...

CVE-2021-0215 Junos OS: EX Series, QFX Series, SRX Branch Series, MX Series: Memory leak in packet forwarding engine due to 802.1X authenticator port interface flaps

On Juniper Networks Junos EX series, QFX Series, MX Series and SRX branch series devices, a memory leak occurs every time the 802.1X authenticator port interface flaps which can lead to other processes, such as the pfex process, responsible for packet forwarding, to crash and restart. An...