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How IT leaders are securing identities with Zero Trust
The past twelve months have been a remarkable time of digital transformation as organizations, and especially digital security teams, adapt to working remotely and shifting business operations. IT leaders everywhere turned to Zero Trust approaches to alleviate the challenges of enabling and...
How IT leaders are securing identities with Zero Trust
The past twelve months have been a remarkable time of digital transformation as organizations, and especially digital security teams, adapt to working remotely and shifting business operations. IT leaders everywhere turned to Zero Trust approaches to alleviate the challenges of enabling and...
Cybercriminals want your cloud services accounts, CISA warns
On January 13 the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA issued a warning about several recent successful cyberattacks on various organizations’ cloud services. What methods did the attackers use? In the initial phase, the victims were targeted by phishing emails trying to capture...
Cloud Attacks Are Bypassing MFA, Feds Warn
The Feds are warning that cybercriminals are bypassing multi-factor authentication MFA and successfully attacking cloud services at various U.S. organizations. According to an alert issued Wednesday by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, there have been “several recent...
CVE-2021-3138
In Discourse 2.7.0 through beta1, a rate-limit bypass leads to a bypass of the 2FA requirement for certain forms...
PT-2021-19276 · Discourse · Discourse
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Discourse versions 2.7.0 through beta1 Description: A rate-limit bypass issue leads to a bypass of the 2FA requirement for certain forms. Recommendations: For versions 2.7.0 through beta1, update to a version that includes a fix for the...
Discourse 安全漏洞
Discourse is an open source community discussion platform. The platform includes community, email, and chat room features.A security vulnerability exists in Discourse 2.7.0, which stems from 2FA's reliance on certain forms rate-limit.No details of the vulnerability are currently available...
New Attack Could Let Hackers Clone Your Google Titan 2FA Security Keys
Hardware security keys—such as those from Google and Yubico—are considered the most secure means to protect accounts from phishing and takeover attacks. But a new research published on Thursday demonstrates how an adversary in possession of such a two-factor authentication 2FA device can clone it...
“I have full control of your device”: Sextortion scam rears its ugly head in time for 2021
Malwarebytes recently received a report about a fresh spate of Bitcoin sextortion scam campaigns doing the rounds. Bitcoin sextortion scams tend to email you to say theyve videoed you on your webcam performing sexual acts in private, and ask you to pay them amount in Bitcoin to keep the video whi...
Fido U2f Security Breach
Fido U2f is an authentication protocol from the Fido organization based on standard public key cryptography techniques primarily used for smart card authentication. A security vulnerability exists in Fido U2f that could allow an attacker to extract the ECDSA private key after extensive physical...
Most-Wanted Threatpost Stories of 2020
As 2020 draws to a close, it’s clear that work-from-home security, ransomware, COVID-19-themed social engineering and attacks by nation-states will go down as defining topics for the cybersecurity world for the year. Threatpost also took a retrospective view on what readers were most interested...
Top Security Recommendations for 2021
Happy HaXmas! We hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season so far. This year has been wild and unpredictable, and has brought unique risks and threats to the forefront of business activities. So, to help everyone stay safer in 2021, the Strategic Advisory Services team here at Rapid7 is...
Nosy Ex-Partners Armed with Instagram Passwords Pose a Serious Threat
Breakups can be traumatic in all sorts of ways. Now we know they can pose a serious cybersecurity threat too. A new survey found that an alarming number of people are still accessing their exes’ accounts without their knowledge — a handful for malicious reasons. The survey conducted during Novemb...
A “quick wins” approach to securing Azure Active Directory and Office 365 and improving your security posture
In the last post, we discussed Office 365 and how enabling certain features without understanding all the components can lead to a false sense of security. We demonstrated how implementing a break glass account, multi-factor authentication MFA, and the removal of legacy authentication can help...
A “quick wins” approach to securing Azure Active Directory and Office 365 and improving your security posture
In the last post, we discussed Office 365 and how enabling certain features without understanding all the components can lead to a false sense of security. We demonstrated how implementing a break glass account, multi-factor authentication MFA, and the removal of legacy authentication can help...
Help Others Be "Cyber Aware" This Festive Season—And All Year Round!
Are you tired of being the cybersecurity help desk for everyone you know? Are you frustrated with spending all your time securing your corporate environment, only to have to deal with the threat that snuck in through naive end-users? Are you new to security and wondering how you ended up here? Th...
NCSC: Be Cyber Aware, especially during the Christmas season
In early December, the National Cyber Security Centre, a UK-based cybersecurity body and a part of GCHQ, kicked off the next chapter of its Cyber Aware campaign initiative, focusing on online shopping threats during the Christmas season. Cyber Aware is the UK government’s "national campaign on...
PT-2020-17293 · Logmein · Logmein Lastpass Password Manager
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: LogMein LastPass Password Manager version 4.8.11.2403 Description: An issue was discovered in the LogMein LastPass Password Manager app for iOS, where the password authentication for unlocking can be bypassed by forcing the authentication...
