A week in security (July 9 – July 15)

Last week, we talked about domestic abuse fuelled by IoT, doing threat intel programs right, blocking ICO fraud, and man-in-the-middle attacks. We also explained why we block shady ad blockers and provided tips to online shoppers for Prime Day. Other news: Reports revealed that low-end Android...

CVE-2018-13785

In libpng 1.6.34, a wrong calculation of rowfactor in the pngcheckchunklength function pngrutil.c may trigger an integer overflow and resultant divide-by-zero while processing a crafted PNG file, leading to a denial of service...

Password-Guessing Was Used to Hack Gentoo Linux Github Account

Maintainers of the Gentoo Linux distribution have now revealed the impact and "root cause" of the attack that saw unknown hackers taking control of its GitHub account last week and modifying the content of its repositories and pages. The hackers not only managed to change the content in compromis...

Password-Guessing Was Used to Hack Gentoo Linux Github Account

Maintainers of the Gentoo Linux distribution have now revealed the impact and "root cause" of the attack that saw unknown hackers taking control of its GitHub account last week and modifying the content of its repositories and pages. The hackers not only managed to change the content in compromis...

TFA Basic plugins - Less critical - Insecure Randomness - SA-CONTRIB-2018-044

The TFA Basic module enables you to use Two Factor Authentication via a variety of plugins including TOTP and one-time codes delivered via email or sms. The module doesn't use a strong source of randomness, creating weak and predictable one-time login codes that are then delivered using SMS. This...

Perverse Vulnerability from Interaction between 2-Factor Authentication and iOS AutoFill

Apple is rolling out an iOS security usability feature called Security code AutoFill. The basic idea is that the OS scans incoming SMS messages for security codes and suggests them in AutoFill, so that people can use them without having to memorize or type them. Sounds like a really good idea, bu...

NetScaler Gateway : Radius Authentication Fails Intermittently Despite RADIUS Server Accept

NetScaler Gateway Authentication Scenario 1: Gateway Page would present the authentication to be done in 2 factor. First the user enters the LDAP username and password. Now there would be 2 options either user can do the touch authentication present in the MFA Application or else can wait for the...

Design/Logic Flaw

Protection Mechanism Failure in ECOS Secure Boot Stick aka SBS 5.6.5 allows a local attacker to duplicate an authentication factor via cloning...

CVE-2018-12329

Protection Mechanism Failure in ECOS Secure Boot Stick aka SBS 5.6.5 allows a local attacker to duplicate an authentication factor via cloning...

CVE-2018-12329

ECOS Secure Boot Stick (SBS) 5.6.5 is affected by a Protection Mechanism Failure that allows a local attacker to duplicate an authentication factor via cloning. The CVE entry (CVE-2018-12329) notes a vulnerability in SBS 5.6.5; connected sources corroborate an authentication bypass/security restr...

CVE-2018-12329

Protection Mechanism Failure in ECOS Secure Boot Stick aka SBS 5.6.5 allows a local attacker to duplicate an authentication factor via cloning...

CVE-2017-16224

st is a module for serving static files. An attacker is able to craft a request that results in an HTTP 301 redirect to an entirely different domain. A request for: http://some.server.com//nodesecurity.org/%2e%2e would result in a 301 to //nodesecurity.org/%2e%2e which most browsers treat as a...

CVE-2017-16224

st is a module for serving static files. An attacker is able to craft a request that results in an HTTP 301 redirect to an entirely different domain. A request for: http://some.server.com//nodesecurity.org/%2e%2e would result in a 301 to //nodesecurity.org/%2e%2e which most browsers treat as a...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

st is a module for serving static files. An attacker is able to craft a request that results in an HTTP 301 redirect to an entirely different domain. A request for: http://some.server.com//nodesecurity.org/%2e%2e would result in a 301 to //nodesecurity.org/%2e%2e which most browsers treat as a...

DNA Testing Service MyHeritage Leaks User Data of 92 Million Customers

Account data tied to 92 million users of the genealogy and DNA testing service MyHeritage were found on a third-party “private” server in a breach that exposed usernames and passwords of customers. The breach is the largest since last year’s Equifax leak of 147.9 million pieces of private data...

Researcher Finds Credentials for 92 Million Users of DNA Testing Firm MyHeritage

MyHeritage, an Israeli-based genealogy and DNA testing company, disclosed today that a security researcher found on the Internet a file containing the email addresses and hashed passwords of more than 92 million of its users. MyHeritage says it has no reason to believe other user data was...

MyHeritage Says Over 92 Million User Accounts Have Been Compromised

MyHeritage, the Israel-based DNA testing service designed to investigate family history, has disclosed that the company website was breached last year by unknown attackers, who stole login credentials of its more than 92 million customers. The company learned about the breach on June 4, 2018, aft...

Two major Canadian banks blackmailed after alleged data breach

While the US was celebrating Memorial Day on Monday, Canada was dealing with an unusual data breach affecting two popular financial institutions: Simplii Financial and Bank of Montreal BMO. The CBC broke the story and updated it throughout the day to mention that some 90,000 customers were possib...

Now that you have a plan, it’s time to start deploying

This blog is part of a series that responds to common questions we receive from customers about deployment of Microsoft 365 security solutions. In this series, youll find context, answers, and guidance for deployment and driving adoption within your organization. Check out our last blog First...

Researcher shows how hackers can bypass Two-factor authentication

By Uzair Amir A majority of users and companies are moving to Two-factor This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Researcher shows how hackers can bypass Two-factor authentication...