Google Account Security Keys Launch for iPhone

Google has extended its Advanced Protection Program for account security to the iPhone platform, aimed at those that are the most-targeted by cybercriminals: Members of political campaign teams, journalists, activists, executives, employees in regulated industries such as finance or government, a...

Preparing your enterprise to eliminate passwords

Anyone who uses the internet knows the hassles of using a user name and password to access their own information, whether it’s their banking, online shopping, social media, medical information, etc. If you’re a CIO, a CISO, or any other exec at a company who is thinking about digital security, th...

5 principles driving a customer-obsessed identity strategy at Microsoft

The cloud era has fundamentally changed the way businesses must think about security. For a long time, we built security around the perimeter. But today, the boundaryless landscape demands that we start with the individual. In our journey with customers co-designing our products and services,...

June 2019 Patch Tuesday – 88 Vulns, 21 Critical, Hyper-V Escape, Adobe Vulns

This month's Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 88 vulnerabilities with 21 of them labeled as Critical. Of the 21 Critical vulns, 17 are for scripting engines and browsers, and 3 are potential hypervisor escapes in Hyper-V. The remaining vulnerability is an RCE in the Microsoft Speech API. Microso...

Bluetooth Low Energy Advisory

Executive Summary Microsoft is aware of an issue that affects the Bluetooth Low Energy BLE version of FIDO Security Keys. Due to a misconfiguration in the Bluetooth pairing protocols, it is possible for an attacker who is physically close to a user at the moment he/she uses the security key to...

About the security content of tvOS 12.3

About the security content of tvOS 12.3 This document describes the security content of tvOS 12.3. About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available...

Android Gets FIDO2 Certification—Now Supports Secure Passwordless Logins

Great news. If you have already installed the latest update of Google Play Services released earlier today, and your Android device is running Android version 7.0 Nougat or above—Congratulations! Your device is now FIDO2 Certified. Are you thinking… what the heck that actually means? It means,...

Google Ditches Passwords in Latest Android Devices

Half of all Android users can now log into apps and websites on their devices – without having to remember a cumbersome password. On Monday, Google and the Fast IDentity Online FIDO Alliance announced that devices running Android 7 or later are certified by the FIDO2 standard, meaning that users...

Threatpost Survey Says: 2FA is Just Fine, But Go Ahead and Kill SMS

The author of a recently released penetration testing tool called Modlishka, which can bypass mainstream two-factor authentication 2FA, asked a provocative question in a recently published research note: “Is 2FA broken?” Since this isn’t the first example of how 2FA can be defeated, we asked...

Security update for MozillaThunderbird (important)

This update for Mozilla Thunderbird to version 60.2.1 fixes multiple issues. Multiple security issues were fixed in the Mozilla platform as advised in MFSA 2018-25 and MFSA 2018-28. In general, these flaws cannot be exploited through email in Thunderbird because scripting is disabled when reading...

A week in security (October 15 – 21)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we went over how to build your own motion-activated security camera, wondered whether FIDO is the future instrument to replace passwords and usernames, informed you about information operations on Twitter, and released our Q3 Malwarebytes Labs Cybercrime Tactics an...

Is FIDO the future instrument to prove our identity?

FIDO, short for Fast IDentity Online, is an industry consortium started in 2013 to address the lack of interoperability among strong authentication devices and the problems users face creating and remembering multiple usernames and passwords. Among the founders were those who work in the financia...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaThunderbird (openSUSE-2018-994)

This update for MozillaThunderbird to version 60.0 fixes the following issues : These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-12359: Prevent buffer overflow using computed size of canvas element bsc1098998. - CVE-2018-12360: Prevent use-after-free when using focus bsc1098998. - CVE-2018-12361:...

Security update for MozillaThunderbird (important)

This update for MozillaThunderbird to version 60.0 fixes the following issues: These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2018-12359: Prevent buffer overflow using computed size of canvas element bsc1098998. - CVE-2018-12360: Prevent use-after-free when using focus bsc1098998. - CVE-2018-12361:...

Google 'Titan Security Key' Is Now On Sale For $50

Google just made its Titan Security Key available on its store for $50. First announced last month at Google Cloud Next '18 convention, Titan Security Key is a tiny USB device—similar to Yubico's YubiKey—that offers hardware-based two-factor authentication 2FA for online accounts with the highest...

Google 'Titan Security Key' Is Now On Sale For $50

Google just made its Titan Security Key available on its store for $50. First announced last month at Google Cloud Next '18 convention, Titan Security Key is a tiny USB device—similar to Yubico's YubiKey—that offers hardware-based two-factor authentication 2FA for online accounts with the highest...

Google Employees Use a Physical Token as Their Second Authentication Factor

Krebs on Security is reporting that all 85,000 Google employees use two-factor authentication with a physical token. A Google spokesperson said Security Keys now form the basis of all account access at Google. "We have had no reported or confirmed account takeovers since implementing security key...

Titan Security Keys – Google launches its own USB-based FIDO U2F Keys

At Google Cloud Next '18 convention in San Francisco, the company has introduced Titan Security Keys—a tiny USB device, similar to Yubico's YubiKey, that offers hardware-based two-factor authentication for your online accounts with the highest level of protection against phishing attacks. These...

Security advisory YSA-2018-02 | Yubico

In Chrome 61, released in September, 2017, Google included a feature called WebUSB. WebUSB allows websites to request direct access to USB devices through JavaScript. A web page could potentially access and interact with a USB device interface unless the operating system reserved exclusive access...

Facebook Adds FIDO U2F Security Keys Feature For Secure Logins

Hacking password for a Facebook account is not easy, but also not impossible. We have always been advising you to enable two-factor authentication — or 2FA — to secure your online accounts, a process that requires users to manually enter, typically a six-digit secret code generated by an...