Hackers take over 1.1 million accounts by trying reused passwords

The New York State Office of the Attorney General has warned 17 companies that roughly 1.1 million customers have had their user accounts compromised in credential stuffing attacks. Credential stuffing is the automated injection of stolen username and password pairs in to website login forms, in...

Do CAPTCHAs work and what’s the alternative?

We know youre busy, so the answer is “No”. Users want less friction, and a good bot detection and mitigation solution will do the job MUCH better. The first lesson on the first day of UI school is that users want the path of least resistance. While the gamification of cybersecurity does have a...

Targeted Phishing Attacks Strike High-Ranking Company Executives

An evolving phishing campaign observed at least since May 2020 has been found to target high-ranking company executives across manufacturing, real estate, finance, government, and technological sectors with the goal of obtaining sensitive information. The campaign hinges on a social engineering...

Google Speech-to-Text API Can Help Attackers Easily Bypass Google reCAPTCHA

A three-year-old attack technique to bypass Google's audio reCAPTCHA by using its own Speech-to-Text API has been found to still work with 97% accuracy. Researcher Nikolai Tschacher disclosed his findings in a proof-of-concept PoC of the attack on January 2. "The idea of the attack is very simple...

How the Crypto Challenge as Action Helped a Major Airline Reduce False Positives While Protecting the Customer Experience

Challenges of Bot Detection: Keeping Defenses High Without Triggering False Positives Identifying bots is important and complicated work. Keeping up with ever-changing bot technologies and attack strategies requires deep knowledge and continuous threat research. The outbreak of the COVID-19...

What's New in Security - March 2019

Today, Akamai announced the March 2019 Release with new features and capabilities across its security, performance, and media product lines - with a focus on helping customers better manage their cloud migration initiatives. Within security, Akamai has made updates to every product line to help...

Digital Identity, Digital Trust, Janrain and Akamai

Authentication on the World Wide Web is badly broken. We all know it, or at least sense it. Every web site or mobile app that we want to use asks us to register and set up yet another account with yet another username and password. With the typical end user having tens of online accounts, this...

Key Considerations in API security

Every day, there are billions of API calls being executed. These include public APIs, private APIs, SaaS APIs, APIs performing mobile back-end functions and many more. Given the gravity of the threat and the sheer volume of what’s exposed, how do we develop systems that are both safe and robust?...

Wallarm to sponsor OWASP AppSec USA

If you are a SecOps or DevOps professional you can not miss the application security event of the year: AppSec USA, September 19–22nd at Disney Coronado Spring Resort, Orlando, FL Use the code: UNLM50WLLRM to register to get $50 discount. You will get great information on the new security tools a...

Incapsula innovative DDoS Protection techniques

Several weeks ago we reviewed Incapsula, a Cloud-based Security service which can significantly enhance the security of your website, while also boosting its performance. Following this review we've received many responses from our readers who wanted to learn more about Incapsula protection...

IRC Bot Detection

This host seems to be running an ident server, but before any request is sent, the server gives an answer about a connection to port 6667. It is very likely this system has been compromised by an IRC bot and is now a 'zombie' that can participate in 'distributed denial of service' DDoS attacks...

IRC Bot ident Server Detection

This host seems to be running an ident server, but the ident server responds to an empty query with a random userid. This behavior may be indicative of an IRC bot, worm and/or virus infection. It is very likely this system has been compromised. IRC bot ident server detection Created: 9/22/04 Last...