Training apps. Have their privacy settings improved in 5 years?

TL;DR Run and bike tracking apps still have a pretty poor approach to password security & default privacy settings From being one of the more secure apps 5 years ago, Strava has now been pushed to the back of this pack as others improved Amazingly, none of these apps support multi factor...

WARNING: Hackers Exploit Unpatched Pulse Secure 0-Day to Breach Organizations

If Pulse Connect Secure gateway is part of your organization network, you need to be aware of a newly discovered critical zero-day authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2021-22893 that is currently being exploited in the wild and for which there is no patch available yet. At least two threat...

Security vs User Journey

Something I often think about is how my recommendations for clients to fix small security issues can spoil / complicate their users journey. UX matters I understand that UX is hugely important, even subtle changes can influence whether a journey is completed or abandoned. The difference between...

Information Disclosure

flask-security-too is vulnerable to information disclosure. The /tf-qrcode endpoint returns the authenticated user's two-factor authentication codes when GET request is submitted. This allows a remote attacker to perform CSRF attacks on a victim to obtain the two-factor authentication codes. The...

CSRF Vuln can expose user's QRcode

Impact When a user is setting up two-factor authentication using an authenticator app, a QRcode is generated and made available via a GET request to /tf-qrcode. Since GETs do not have any CSRF protection, it is possible a malicious 3rd party could access the QRcode and therefore gain access to...

GHSA-FXQ4-R6MR-9X64 CSRF Vuln can expose user's QRcode

Impact When a user is setting up two-factor authentication using an authenticator app, a QRcode is generated and made available via a GET request to /tf-qrcode. Since GETs do not have any CSRF protection, it is possible a malicious 3rd party could access the QRcode and therefore gain access to...

NIST and HIPAA: Is There a Password Connection?

When dealing with user data, it's essential that we design our password policies around compliance. These policies are defined both internally and externally. While companies uphold their own password standards, outside forces like HIPAA and NIST have a heavy influence. Impacts are defined by...

PT-2021-24416

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: SoftwareX versions prior to 4.0.0 Description: The issue arises during the setup of two-factor authentication using an authenticator app, where a QR code is generated and made available via a GET request to "/tf-qrcode". Since GET requests do...

11 Useful Security Tips for Securing Your AWS Environment

Want to take advantage of excellent cloud services? Amazon Web Services may be the perfect solution, but don't forget about AWS security. Whether you want to use AWS for a few things or everything, you need to protect access to it. Then you can make sure your business can run smoothly. Read on to...

11 Useful Security Tips for Securing Your AWS Environment

Want to take advantage of excellent cloud services? Amazon Web Services may be the perfect solution, but don't forget about AWS security. Whether you want to use AWS for a few things or everything, you need to protect access to it. Then you can make sure your business can run smoothly. Read on to...

Protect your business from email phishing with multi-factor authentication

Cybersecurity has been in the news far more often in the past 12 months than in previous years, as cybercriminals escalated their activity during the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine. The seismic shift of hundreds of millions of people connecting and working from home every day presented cybercrimina...

Protect your business from email phishing with multi-factor authentication

Cybersecurity has been in the news far more often in the past 12 months than in previous years, as cybercriminals escalated their activity during the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine. The seismic shift of hundreds of millions of people connecting and working from home every day presented cybercrimina...

CVE-2021-3153

HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise up to v202102-2 failed to enforce an organization-level setting that required users within an organization to have two-factor authentication enabled. Fixed in v202103-1...

CVE-2021-3153

HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise up to v202102-2 failed to enforce an organization-level setting that required users within an organization to have two-factor authentication enabled. Fixed in v202103-1...

Authentication flaw

HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise up to v202102-2 failed to enforce an organization-level setting that required users within an organization to have two-factor authentication enabled. Fixed in v202103-1...

CVE-2021-3153

HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise up to v202102-2 failed to enforce an organization-level setting that required users within an organization to have two-factor authentication enabled. Fixed in v202103-1...

CVE-2021-3153

HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise up to v202102-2 did not enforce an organization-level setting requiring MFA for users within an organization. Root cause: MFA enforcement was not applied at the org level. Impact: potential weaker access controls; remediation: upgrade to v202103-1 where the MFA requ...

Hashicorp Terraform authorization issue vulnerability

Hashicorp Terraform is an open source tool for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure from HashiCorp Hashicorp, USA. A security vulnerability exists in HashiCorp Terraform that stems from a failure to enforce an organization-level setting that requires users within an organization to enab...

CVE-2021-3153: Improper Authentication

HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise up to v202102-2 failed to enforce an organization-level setting that required users within an organization to have two-factor authentication enabled. Fixed in v202103-1...

PT-2021-19406

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise versions up to v202102-2 Description The issue concerns a failure to enforce an organization-level setting that requires users within an organization to have two-factor authentication enabled. This affects users ...