Riding the AI Waves: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence to Combat Cyber Threats

In nearly every segment of our lives, AI artificial intelligence now makes a significant impact: It can deliver better healthcare diagnoses and treatments; detect and reduce the risk of financial fraud; improve inventory management; and serve up the right recommendation for a streaming movie on...

10 things to do to improve your online privacy

1. Set up two-factor authentication Do this for as many of your online accounts as you can, especially the major ones like your email and social media accounts. Two-factor authentication 2FA adds an extra step of protection and makes it much harder for attackers to login as you. We recommend usin...

Microsoft Warns of Widening APT29 Espionage Attacks Targeting Global Orgs

Microsoft on Thursday said the Russian state-sponsored threat actors responsible for a cyber attack on its systems in late November 2023 have been targeting other organizations and that it's currently beginning to notify them. The development comes a day after Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE...

DRUPAL-CONTRIB-2024-003

This module enables you to allow and/or require users to use a second authentication method in addition to password authentication. In some cases, the module allows users to log in with an authentication plugin that an administrator has disabled. This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that a...

Two-factor Authentication (TFA) - Moderately critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2024-003

This module enables you to allow and/or require users to use a second authentication method in addition to password authentication. In some cases, the module allows users to log in with an authentication plugin that an administrator has disabled. This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that a...

PT-2024-10091 · Drupal · Two-Factor Authentication

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Two-factor Authentication TFA versions 0.0.0 through 1.5.0 Description: The issue is related to a weak authentication vulnerability in the Two-factor Authentication TFA module for Drupal, which can be exploited to abuse authentication. This...

Exploit for Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password in Gitlab

CVE-2023-7028 | Account-Take-Over Gitlab Disclamer This co...

GitLab Fixes Critical Account Takeover Vulnerability

Summary: Critical GitLab vulnerability CVE-2023-7028 enables unauthorized users to take over the administrator account without user interaction. Exploiting password reset flaws, attackers can submit two emails, both target as well as attacker account leading to complete account takeover. Users wi...

MFA Spamming and Fatigue: When Security Measures Go Wrong

In today's digital landscape, traditional password-only authentication systems have proven to be vulnerable to a wide range of cyberattacks. To safeguard critical business resources, organizations are increasingly turning to multi-factor authentication MFA as a more robust security measure. MFA...

GitLab warns zero-click vulnerability could lead to account takeovers

GitLab has issued a warning about a critical vulnerability in GitLab Community Edition CE and Enterprise Edition EE. GitLab is an online DevOps platform that allows developers to collaborate on creating software. Organizations have a choice to install GitLab on their own servers or under GitLab’s...

Fidelity National Financial acknowledges data breach affecting 1.3 million customers

In November 2023, real estate services company Fidelity National Financial FNF got its systems knocked offline for a week after a cyberincident. As is often the case these days, it turns out that the cyberincident was very likely a ransomware attack that included a data breach. Ransomware operato...

Exploit for Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password in Gitlab

CVE-2023-7028 | Account-Take-Over Gitlab Disclamer This co...

How to Stop Your X Account From Getting Hacked Like the SEC's

The US Securities and Exchange Commission and security firm Mandiant both had their X accounts breached, possibly due to changes to X’s two-factor authentication settings. Here’s how to fix yours...

GHSA-CHCR-X7HC-8FP8 Devise-Two-Factor vulnerable to brute force attacks

Advisory withdrawn The backing CVE has been rejected Devise-Two-Factor does not throttle or otherwise restrict login attempts at the server by default. When combined with the Time-based One Time Password algorithm's TOTP inherent entropy limitations, it's possible for an attacker to bypass the 2F...

Brute Force Attack

devise-two-factor is vulnerable to Brute Force Attack. The vulnerability is due to a lack of attempt restriction of login attempts in Devise-Two-Factor. This issue, when combined with the inherent entropy limitations of the Time-based One-Time Password TOTP algorithm, This allows an attacker to...

PT-2024-19001 · Unknown · Rubygems.Org

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Rubygems.org affected versions not specified Description: The issue concerns a workaround on the forgotten password form of Rubygems.org, which allows an attacker to bypass the Multi-Factor Authentication MFA requirement. Normally, users with...

RubyGems Authorization Issues Vulnerability

RubyGems is a Ruby package manager from the RubyGems organization. The product is primarily used to distribute and manage Ruby packages. RubyGems has an authorization issue vulnerability that stems from allowing an attacker to bypass MFA requirements and take over an account...

Devise-Two-Factor vulnerable to brute force attacks

Devise-Two-Factor does not throttle or otherwise restrict login attempts at the server by default. When combined with the Time-based One Time Password algorithm's TOTP inherent entropy limitations, it's possible for an attacker to bypass the 2FA mechanism through brute-force attacks. Impact If a...

Design/Logic Flaw

Devise-Two-Factor does not throttle or otherwise restrict login attempts at the server by default. When combined with the Time-based One Time Password algorithm's TOTP inherent entropy limitations, it's possible for an attacker to bypass the 2FA mechanism through brute-force attacks...

CVE-2024-0227

Devise-Two-Factor is vulnerable to brute-force attacks due to no throttling of login attempts by default, allowing an attacker to test possible TOTP codes if username/password are compromised. Documents from RubySec and GitHub advisories describe an attacker bypassing 2FA by brute-forcing TOTP, w...