Creating and Managing Strong Passwords

NCCIC/US-CERT reminds users of the importance of creating and managing strong passwords. Passwords are often the only barrier between you and your personal information. There are several programs attackers can use to help guess or "crack" passwords. However, choosing strong passwords and keeping...

Two-Factor Authentication: What is it and why do I need it to stay safe online?

Today, Americans are living more and more of their lives on the internet. We shop, bank, socialize, work and play online. But as our digital lives become increasingly important, they are also exposed to greater risks. Hackers are lurking around every corner ready to steal our identities, drain ou...

The digital entropy of death: what happens to your online accounts when you die

Unless you're planning on having your mind jammed inside some sort of computer chip, eventually mortality will catch up and you're going to have to work out what you'll do with all of your online accounts. When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you might, theoretically, be slightly annoy...

Abine Blur Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Abine Blur is a private account management application from Abine USA.Password Manager Extension is one of the password management plug-ins. A security vulnerability exists in Password Manager Extension in Abine Blur version 7.8.2428 prior to 7.8.242. A remote attacker can exploit this...

Solaris 10 (sparc) : 150383-18

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Solaris 10 (x86) : 148072-14

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Solaris 10 (sparc) : 152097-61

JavaSE 7: update 161 patch equivalent to JDK 7u161, 64bit. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Oct/16/17 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text in this plugin was extracted from the Oracle SunOS Patch Updates. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

CVE-2018-7213

The Password Manager Extension in Abine Blur 7.8.242 before 7.8.2428 allows attackers to bypass the Multi-Factor Authentication and macOS disk-encryption protection mechanisms, and consequently exfiltrate secured data, because the right-click context menu is not secured...

CVE-2018-7213

The Password Manager Extension in Abine Blur 7.8.242 before 7.8.2428 allows attackers to bypass the Multi-Factor Authentication and macOS disk-encryption protection mechanisms, and consequently exfiltrate secured data, because the right-click context menu is not secured...

Code injection

The Password Manager Extension in Abine Blur 7.8.242 before 7.8.2428 allows attackers to bypass the Multi-Factor Authentication and macOS disk-encryption protection mechanisms, and consequently exfiltrate secured data, because the right-click context menu is not secured...

CVE-2018-7213

The CVE concerns Abine Blur’s Password Manager Extension. Affected: Blur 7.8.242* pre-release 7.8.2428. Root cause: an unsecured right-click context menu allows bypass of Multi-Factor Authentication and macOS disk encryption protection, enabling exfiltration of secured data. Documents do not spec...

CVE-2018-7213

The Password Manager Extension in Abine Blur 7.8.242 before 7.8.2428 allows attackers to bypass the Multi-Factor Authentication and macOS disk-encryption protection mechanisms, and consequently exfiltrate secured data, because the right-click context menu is not secured...

Financial Cyber Threat Sharing Group Phished

The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center FS-ISAC, an industry forum for sharing data about critical cybersecurity threats facing the banking and finance industries, said today that a successful phishing attack on one of its employees was used to launch additional phishing...

Memcached-fueled 1.3 Tbps attacks

At 17:28 GMT, February 28th, Akamai experienced a 1.3 Tbps DDoS attack against one of our customers, a software development company, driven by memcached reflection. This attack was the largest attack seen to date by Akamai, more than twice the size of the September, 2016 attacks that announced th...

How to Fight Mobile Number Port-out Scams

T-Mobile, AT&T and other mobile carriers are reminding customers to take advantage of free services that can block identity thieves from easily "porting" your mobile number out to another provider, which allows crooks to intercept your calls and messages while your phone goes dark. Tips for...

Memcached UDP Reflection Attacks

Akamai is aware of a new DDoS reflection attack vector: UDP-based memcached traffic. Memcached is a tool meant to cache data and reduce strain on heavier data stores, like disk or databases. The protocol allows the server to be queried for information about key value stores and is only intended t...

Nextcloud: twofactor_auth bypassable if provider fails to load

Just want to preface this by saying that this is probably not a significant vulnerability, as it requires that the server either have recently been incorrectly upgraded or otherwise misconfigured. However in the administration of my own personal NextCloud instance I have hit this several times...

ReelPhish: A Real-Time Two-Factor Phishing Tool

Social Engineering and Two-Factor Authentication Social engineering campaigns are a constant threat to businesses because they target the weakest chain in security: people. A typical attack would capture a victim’s username and password and store it for an attacker to reuse later. Two-Factor...

CVE-2018-6389 WordPress Parameter Resource Consumption Remote DoS

Yesterday Monday, February 5, 2018, a zero-day vulnerability in WordPress core was disclosed, which allows an attacker to perform a denial of service DoS attack against a vulnerable application. The vulnerability exists in the modules used to load JS and CSS files. These modules were designed to...

A week in security (January 22 – January 28)

Last week on Labs, we analyzed a rogue app outbreak on Twitter, took a look at how Singapore's government is faring with network defense, and rolled out our 2017 State of Malware report. We also became visionaries in Gartner's Magic Quadrant report and explored a VR data mishap. Other news Man...