Cybersecurity New Year’s resolutions, you say? Why not.

It's mid-January, and oh, how time flies. It wasn’t long since we bid farewell to 2017 and welcomed the new year with renewed hope and vigor. Of course, with such positivity comes a sense of an equally favorable outlook for the year ahead. However good that may sound, being faced with a tabula ra...

WordPress Two-Factor Authentication – Clockwork SMS plugin <=1.0.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Reflected Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability found by Elias Dimopoulos in WordPress Two-Factor Authentication – Clockwork SMS plugin versions =1.0.3 Solution Update the WordPress Two-Factor Authentication – Clockwork SMS plugin to the latest available version at least 1.1.0...

Akamaizing Your Dev & QA Environments

Over the last few months, I've been talking to many development and test teams who deliver their sites and applications through the Akamai Intelligent Platform. One common challenge they face is how to test their Akamai delivery configurations on the Internet against their private development and...

BankBot Returns On Play Store – A Never Ending Android Malware Story

Even after so many efforts by Google for making its Play Store away from malware, shady apps somehow managed to fool its anti-malware protections and infect people with malicious software. A team of researchers from several security firms has uncovered two new malware campaigns targeting Google...

CVE-2017-16634

In Joomla! before 3.8.2, a bug allowed third parties to bypass a user's 2-factor authentication method...

CVE-2017-16634

In Joomla! before 3.8.2, a bug allowed third parties to bypass a user's 2-factor authentication method...

CVE-2017-16634

In Joomla! before 3.8.2, a bug allowed third parties to bypass a user's 2-factor authentication method...

Authentication flaw

In Joomla! before 3.8.2, a bug allowed third parties to bypass a user's 2-factor authentication method...

CVE-2017-16634

CVE-2017-16634 affects Joomla! 3.x prior to 3.8.2 and stems from a bug in the core authentication flow that allows bypassing a user’s two‑factor authentication method. The connected Nessus entries corroborate authentication bypass for Joomla! versions under 3.8.2. The documented remediation is to...

Part 2: All rise! Mind these digital crimes and arm your business against them

In the first installment of this two-part series, we advised consumers to stay on top of a selection of up-and-coming crimes to significantly lessen the chances of encountering them in the future. For this post, we're going to look into digital crimes that keeps small businesses and large...

[20171102] - Core - 2-factor-authentication bypass

A bug allowed third parties to bypass a user's 2-factor-authentication method...

Google’s ‘Advanced Protection’ Tools Trade Ease-of-Use for Security

Government officials and journalists who use Google services were the first to be invited to use advanced Gmail account security services announced Tuesday. Experts say it’s no security panacea, but tools provided under the Google banner called Advanced Protection empower any private Google users...

Enable Google's New "Advanced Protection" If You Don't Want to Get Hacked

It is good to be paranoid when it comes to cybersecurity. Google already provides various advanced features such as login alerts and two-factor authentication to keep your Google account secure. However, if you are extra paranoid, Google has just introduced its strongest ever security feature,...

ONVIF Device Services

Nessus was able to map the enabled ONVIF services on the remote device by sending a GetCapabilities SOAP request. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid103866; scriptversion"$Revision: 1.2 $"; scriptcvsdate"$Date: 2017/10/31 18:41:24 $"; scriptnameenglish:"ONVIF Device Services";...

Open Redirect

Overview 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 trea...

iOS Password Prompts are Ripe for Abuse

Apple’s policy to repeatedly ask users for their iTunes password needlessly exposes iOS device owners to possible phishing attacks, according a mobile app developer Felix Krause. Krause’s beef with Apple is that too often and seemingly at random times, popups deliver a dialogue box for users to...

Watch Out! Difficult-to-Detect Phishing Attack Can Steal Your Apple ID Password

Can you detect which one of the above screens—asking an iPhone user for iCloud password—is original and which is fake? Well, you would agree that both screenshots are almost identical, but the pop-up shown in the second image is fake—a perfect phishing attack that can be used to trick even the mo...

When Phishing Starts from the Inside

A growing concern of security professionals is internal phishing attacks - phishing emails sent from one trusted user to another of the same organization. Internal phishing emails are used in multi-stage attacks in which an email account is owned either by controlling the users device with...

Practical Tips for Personal Online Security

As a cybersecurity professional I write about enterprise security on a daily basis. But with the start of National Cyber Security Awareness Month NCSAM I was inspired to switch gears and write about personal security given this week’s theme of simple steps to online safety for consumers. So, with...

PT-2018-16193 · Nextcloud +1 · Nextcloud Server +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Nextcloud Server versions prior to 12.0.3 Description: The issue allows an attacker with obtained user credentials to bypass 2 Factor Authentication due to improper authentication. Recommendations: For versions prior to 12.0.3, update to...