Two-Factor Authentication Options for Web Services

LinkedIn is the latest in a long line of high profile Internet services companies to offer two-factor authentication to its user base, joining Twitter, Evernote, Gmail and myriad others. And much like those other services, the move to a stronger form authentication is a reactionary one, coming on...

Evernote Two-Factor Authentication for Paid Accounts

Cloud-based note taking service Evernote this week pushed out three new security features including two-factor authentication for some users’ accounts in hopes of adding an extra layer of protection. The service is among the latest to hop on the two-step verification bandwagon, following Amazon...

New Android malware forwards incoming messages to hacker

A new type of Android malware that can intercept text messages and forwarding to hackers is discovered by the Russian firm Doctor Web. This is a very serious threat to users, because using this malware attackers can easily get two factor authentication code of your Email or bank accounts. The...

Twitter Enables Two-Factor Authentication

Responding to a wave of high-profile account takeovers in recent months, Twitter has implemented a phone-based two-factor authentication scheme that will require a numerical code along with a username and password when users log in to their accounts. The feature, known as login verification, is...

Lulzsec hackers to be sentenced for cyber attacks on the CIA and Pentagon

Four men accused of launching online attacks under the banner of LulzSec appeared in a London courtroom Wednesday for sentencing. Ryan Ackroyd, Jake Davis, Mustafa al-Bassam and Ryan Cleary have all pleaded guilty to hacking offences. The name Lulzsec is a combination of 'lulz' or 'lols', "LAUGHI...

SA-CONTRIB-2013-047 - Google Authenticator login - Access Bypass

This module will allow you to add Time-based One-time Password Algorithm also called "Two Step Authentication" or "Multi-Factor Authentication" support to user logins. It works with Google's Authenticator app system and support most if not all OATH based HOTP/TOTP systems. Accidental removal of...

Fedora 19 : anaconda-19.25-1.fc19 / pykickstart-1.99.30-1.fc19 / python-blivet-0.13-1.fc19 (2013-7834)

A giant pile of fixes. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

Google Strong Authentication Strategy Eliminates Passwords

Gmail and Google Apps account hijacking has been the linchpin of a number of high-profile targeted attacks, starting with the Aurora attacks of 2009, right up until last week’s attack against the Twitter account belonging to the satirical Onion news site. Granted we’re talking about two very...

Google Joins FIDO Alliance Effort to Move Beyond Passwords

Google, which gradually has been moving its users away from using passwords as their main form of authentication for Web services, has joined a young organization whose goal is to phase out passwords and replace them with various forms of strong authentication. The FIDO Alliance, formed last year...

Syrian Hackers Hijack AP Twitter Tweet Obama Injured by Bomb

Twitter is facing increased pressure to beef up authentication for users after the hijacking of another high-profile account yesterday caused some temporary tremors on the stock market. The social network has reportedly been testing two-factor authentication internally; Twitter lags behind Google...

Hackers Using Brute-Force Attacks to Harvest WordPress Sites

Months of distributed denial of service attacks against major U.S. banks have evolved in magnitude and ferocity causing service disruptions for online banking customers. They’ve also shown the way for other attackers to adapt and evolve techniques used in those attacks. Apparently, someone is...

Quest Defender Desktop Login Component Installed

Defender Desktop Login Component, a two-factor authentication application for protecting a login page, is installed on the remote Windows host. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid65929; scriptversion"1.8";...

Microsoft Reportedly Adding Two-Factor Authentication to User Accounts

Microsoft reportedly will implement two-factor authentication on users’ accounts at some point down the line, according to reports this week. Microsoft fansite Liveside.net first reported about the company’s plans yesterday with a blog post that includes a handful of screenshots from the purporte...

CVE-2013-0258

The Google Authenticator login galogin module 7.x before 7.x-1.3 for Drupal, when multi-factor authentication is enabled, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication for accounts without an associated Google Authenticator token by logging in with the username...

Authentication flaw

The Google Authenticator login galogin module 7.x before 7.x-1.3 for Drupal, when multi-factor authentication is enabled, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication for accounts without an associated Google Authenticator token by logging in with the username...

CVE-2013-0258

The CVE-2013-0258 entry concerns the Drupal ga_login module (Drupal 7.x) prior to 7.x-1.3, where multi-factor authentication is enabled but an attacker can bypass login by using a username if no Google Authenticator token is associated with the account. The root cause is a flawed authentication b...

Apple Takes Tool offline After New Security Hole Surfaces

Less than a day after Apple announced a new two-factor authentication to better protect Apple ID and iCloud accounts, the company was scrambling to fix another major security hole with its own password reset tool. As first reported earlier Friday by The Verge, this new exploit allows anyone to ga...

Apple adds two-factor authentication to iCloud and Apple ID

Apple is beefing up the security of its iCloud and Apple ID accounts by adding two-factor authentication to the account login process. Users who activate the option will be required to enter a four-digit code they may receive via SMS message, aside from the usual password. Two-factor authenticati...

Apple Adds Two-Factor Authentication to iTunes Accounts

Apple has introduced a new two-factor authentication system designed to help protect users’ iTunes and App Store accounts and prevent attackers or unauthorized users from taking over users’ accounts. The system is similar to the one that Google has implemented for Gmail, utilizing verification...

Apple adds two-factor authentication to iCloud and Apple ID

Apple is beefing up the security of its iCloud and Apple ID accounts by adding two-factor authentication to the account login process. Users who activate the option will be required to enter a four-digit code they may receive via SMS message, aside from the usual password. Two-factor authenticati...