‘FragAttacks’: Wi-Fi Bugs Affect Millions of Devices

A Belgian security researcher specializing in Wi-Fi bugs has unearthed a clutch of new ones, which he called FragAttacks, that affect the Wi-Fi standard itself. The name is short for “fragmentation and aggregation attacks.” Some bugs date back to 1997, meaning that computers, smartphones or other...

Colonial Pipeline attack expected to trigger imminent hardening of cybersecurity rules for federal agencies

UPDATE 04:23 pm Pacific Time, May 12: On Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order that broadly directs the Commerce Department to create cybersecurity standards for companies that sell software to the federal government. The Order comes in the immediate aftermath of a ransomware...

GitHub Prepares to Move Beyond Passwords

GitHub, the ubiquitous host for software development and version control and unfortunate target of a steady pitter-patter of attacks targeting the same, is now supporting security keys when using Git over SSH. In a post on Monday, GitHub security engineer Kevin Jones said that this is the next st...

CVE-2021-31901

In JetBrains Hub before 2021.1.13079, two-factor authentication wasn't enabled properly for the All Users group...

CVE-2021-31901

In JetBrains Hub before 2021.1.13079, two-factor authentication wasn't enabled properly for the All Users group...

JetBrains Hub 安全漏洞

JetBrains Hub is a web-based application from the Czech company JetBrains. The program is capable of integrating multiple JetBrains team tools together. A security vulnerability exists in JetBrains Hub versions prior to 2021.1.13079. The vulnerability stems from "two-factor authentication"...

4 Major Privacy and Security Updates From Google You Should Know About

Google has announced a number of user-facing and under-the-hood changes in an attempt to boost privacy and security, including rolling out two-factor authentication automatically to all eligible users and bringing iOS-styled privacy labels to Android app listings. "Today we ask people who have...

New Study Warns of Security Threats Linked to Recycled Phone Numbers

A new academic study has highlighted a number of privacy and security pitfalls associated with recycling mobile phone numbers that could be abused to stage a variety of exploits, including account takeovers, conduct phishing and spam attacks, and even prevent victims from signing up for online...

Malicious Office 365 Apps Are the Ultimate Insiders

Phishers targeting Microsoft Office 365 users increasingly are turning to specialized links that take users to their organizations own email login page. After a user logs in, the link prompts them to install a malicious but innocuously-named app that gives the attacker persistent, password-free...

Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Cyber Operations: Trends and Best Practices for Network Defenders

Summary The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, Department of Homeland Security DHS, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA assess Russian Foreign Intelligence Service SVR cyber actors—also known as Advanced Persistent Threat 29 APT 29, the Dukes, CozyBear, and Yttrium—will...

Evolving beyond password complexity as an identity strategy

The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyber threats. In the latest Voice of the Community blog series post, Microsoft Product Marketing Manager Natalia Godyla talks with Troy Hunt, founder of Have I Been Pwned,...

Evolving beyond password complexity as an identity strategy

The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyber threats. In the latest Voice of the Community blog series post, Microsoft Product Marketing Manager Natalia Godyla talks with Troy Hunt, founder of Have I Been Pwned,...

Github authelia input validation error vulnerability

Github authelia is an application from Github USA. An open source authentication and authorization server that provides 2-factor authentication and single sign-on SSO to applications through a web portal. Authelia version 4.27.4 and prior versions contain an input validation error vulnerability...

Authorization

Authelia is an open-source authentication and authorization server providing 2-factor authentication and single sign-on SSO for your applications via a web portal. In versions 4.27.4 and earlier, utilizing a HTTP query parameter an attacker is able to redirect users from the web application to an...

CVE-2021-29456 Authelia allows open redirects on the logout endpoint

Authelia is an open-source authentication and authorization server providing 2-factor authentication and single sign-on SSO for your applications via a web portal. In versions 4.27.4 and earlier, utilizing a HTTP query parameter an attacker is able to redirect users from the web application to an...

Training apps. Have their privacy settings improved in 5 years?

TL;DR Run and bike tracking apps still have a pretty poor approach to password security & default privacy settings From being one of the more secure apps 5 years ago, Strava has now been pushed to the back of this pack as others improved Amazingly, none of these apps support multi factor...

WARNING: Hackers Exploit Unpatched Pulse Secure 0-Day to Breach Organizations

If Pulse Connect Secure gateway is part of your organization network, you need to be aware of a newly discovered critical zero-day authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2021-22893 that is currently being exploited in the wild and for which there is no patch available yet. At least two threat...

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...

Information Disclosure

flask-security-too is vulnerable to information disclosure. The /tf-qrcode endpoint returns the authenticated user's two-factor authentication codes when GET request is submitted. This allows a remote attacker to perform CSRF attacks on a victim to obtain the two-factor authentication codes. The...

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...