How companies can prepare for a heightened threat environment

With high levels of political unrest in various parts of the world, it’s no surprise we’re also in a period of increased cyber threats. In the past, a company’s name, political affiliations, or religious affiliations might push the risk needle higher. However, in the current environment any compa...

Google Account Security Keys Launch for iPhone

Google has extended its Advanced Protection Program for account security to the iPhone platform, aimed at those that are the most-targeted by cybercriminals: Members of political campaign teams, journalists, activists, executives, employees in regulated industries such as finance or government, a...

Use iPhone as Physical Security Key to Protect Your Google Accounts

Great news for iOS users! You can now use your iPhone or iPad, running iOS 10 or later, as a physical security key for securely logging into your Google account as part of the Advanced Protection Program for two-factor authentication. Android users have had this feature on their smartphones since...

Use iPhone as Physical Security Key to Protect Your Google Accounts

Great news for iOS users! You can now use your iPhone or iPad, running iOS 10 or later, as a physical security key for securely logging into your Google account as part of the Advanced Protection Program for two-factor authentication. Android users have had this feature on their smartphones since...

A Practical Guide to Zero-Trust Security

Employees are demanding that employers enable flexible workstyles. Apps are moving to the cloud. A company’s device and application mix are increasingly heterogeneous. All of these factors are breaking down the enterprise security perimeter, rendering traditional security approaches obsolete, and...

How to implement Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Another day, another data breach. If the regular drumbeat of leaked and phished accounts hasn't persuaded you to switch to Multi-Factor Authentication MFA already, maybe the usual January rush of 'back to work' password reset requests is making you reconsider. When such an effective option for...

What the continued escalation of tensions in the Middle East means for security

Cisco Talos works with many organizations around the world, monitoring and protecting against sophisticated threats every day. As such, we are watching the current state of events in the Middle East very closely for our customers and partners who may be impacted by the ongoing situation. We are...

Secure New Internet-Connected Devices

During the holidays, internet-connected devices—also known as Internet of Things IoT devices—are popular gifts. These include smart cameras, smart TVs, watches, toys, phones, and tablets. Although this technology provides added convenience to our lives, it often requires that we share personal an...

Chinese Hackers Bypassing Two-Factor Authentication

Interesting story of how a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group is bypassing the RSA SecurID two-factor authentication system. How they did it remains unclear; although, the Fox-IT team has their theory. They said APT20 stole an RSA SecurID software token from a hacked system, which the Chinese...

Authentication Bypass

scheb/two-factor-bundle is vulnerable to authentication bypass. The vulnerability exists as the JwtTokenEncoder does not properly verify the validity of the JWT token, allowing an attacker to generate trusted device cookies and bypass the two-factor authentication...

Authentication Bypass

scheb/two-factor-bundle is vulnerable to authentication bypass. The 2-factor authentication can be bypassed by logging in with the REMEMBERME cookie and subsequently removing the SESSIONID key...

Facebook Finally Fixes Its Two-Factor Mess

A Wawa breach, Russian spies, and more of the week's top security news...

Dsiem - Security Event Correlation Engine For ELK Stack

Dsiem is a security event correlation engine for ELK stack, allowing the platform to be used as a dedicated and full-featured SIEM system. Dsiem provides OSSIM-style correlation for normalized logs/events, perform lookup/query to threat intelligence and vulnerability information sources, and...

CVE-2019-18672

Insufficient checks in the finite state machine of the ShapeShift KeepKey hardware wallet before firmware 6.2.2 allow a partial reset of cryptographic secrets to known values via crafted messages. Notably, this breaks the security of U2F for new server registrations and invalidates existing...

Updated openssl packages fix security vulnerabilities

The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: ChaCha20-Poly1305 is an AEAD cipher, and requires a unique nonce input for every encryption operation. RFC 7539 specifies that the nonce value IV should be 96 bits 12 bytes. OpenSSL allows a variable nonce length and front pads the nonce with 0...

PT-2019-15571 · Shapeshift · Keepkey

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: ShapeShift KeepKey hardware wallet versions prior to 6.2.2 Description: The issue is related to insufficient checks in the finite state machine of the ShapeShift KeepKey hardware wallet. This allows a partial reset of cryptographic secrets to...

[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: freeipa-4.8.3-1.fc31

IPA is an integrated solution to provide centrally managed Identity users, hosts, services, Authentication SSO, 2FA, and Authorization host access control, SELinux user roles, services. The solution provides features for further integration with Linux based clients SUDO, automount and integration...

Cyberthreats to financial institutions 2020: Overview and predictions

Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2019. Advanced threat predictions for 2020 Cybersecurity of connected healthcare 2020: Overview and predictions 5G technology predictions 2020 Corporate security prediction 2020 Key events 2019 Large-scale anti-fraud bypass: Genesis digital fingerprints market uncovere...

Unspecified vulnerability in wagtail-2fa

wagtail-2fa is a two-factor authentication software package. A security vulnerability exists in versions prior to wagtail-2fa 1.3.0 that can be exploited by an attacker to log in to CMS and bypass the 2FA check, in order to add new devices and gain full access to CMS...

PYSEC-2019-135

When using wagtail-2fa before 1.3.0, if someone gains access to someone's Wagtail login credentials, they can log into the CMS and bypass the 2FA check by changing the URL. They can then add a new device and gain full access to the CMS. This problem has been patched in version 1.3.0...