Beyond MFA: Rethinking the Authentication Key

You have to hand it to the cyber-thieves: They have proven extremely adept at defeating security measures once thought reliable. Case in point: multifactor authentication MFA. While two-factor authentication 2FA using push text notifications has become the de-facto standard for login security, ba...

New Security Signals study shows firmware attacks on the rise; here’s how Microsoft is working to help eliminate this entire class of threats

Cybersecurity threats are always evolving, and today we’re seeing a new wave of advanced attacks targeting areas of computing that don’t have the protection of the cloud. New data shows that firmware attacks are on the rise, and businesses aren’t paying close enough attention to securing this...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : BIG-IP virtual server TCP sequence numbers vulnerability (K64571774)

On specific BIG-IP platforms, attackersmay be able to obtain TCP sequence numbers from the BIG-IP system that can be reused in future connections with the same source and destination port and IP numbers.CVE-2020-5947 Impact Attackers may be able to spoof TCP packets to be used by a future...

Meet the Microsoft Pluton processor – The security chip designed for the future of Windows PCs

The role of the Windows PC and trust in technology are more important than ever as our devices keep us connected and productive across work and life. Windows 10 is the most secure version of Windows ever, built with end-to-end security for protection from the edge to the cloud all the way down to...

Secured-core PCs help customers stay ahead of advanced data theft

Researchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology recently revealed information around "Thunderspy," an attack that relies on leveraging direct memory access DMA functionality to compromise devices. An attacker with physical access to a system can use Thunderspy to read and copy data even fro...

CVE-2019-6672

On BIG-IP AFM 15.0.0-15.0.1, 14.0.0-14.1.2, and 13.1.0-13.1.3.1, when bad-actor detection is configured on a wildcard virtual server on platforms with hardware-based sPVA, the performance of the BIG-IP AFM system is degraded...

How Windows Defender Antivirus integrates hardware-based system integrity for informed, extensive endpoint protection

Detecting and stopping attacks that tamper with kernel-mode agents at the hypervisor level is a critical component of the unified endpoint protection platform in Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection Microsoft Defender ATP. It’s not without challenges, but the deep integration of Windows...

honggfuzz vulnerability mining technology principle analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Google AFLWinAFL, the libfuzzer and honggfuzz is the most famous of the three based on code coverage fuzzer is. Online on the AFLWinAFLanalysis of the articles more, and on the latter two Analysis Articles less. Before the spring brother has written about honggfuzz article: honggfuzz vulnerabilit...

Step 9. Protect your OS: top 10 actions to secure your environment

In “Step 9. Protect your OS” of the Top 10 actions to secure your environment blog series, we provide resources to help you configure Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection Microsoft Defender ATP to defend your Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android devices from advanced threats. In an...

CVE-2019-1649

CVE-2019-1649 concerns Cisco’s Secure Boot Trust Anchor module (TAm). The flaw stems from an improper check in the FPGA/ Trust Anchor bitstream handling, enabling an authenticated, local attacker with OS access to write a modified firmware image to the FPGA. Consequences include potential device ...

New Ninth-Gen Intel CPUs Shield Against Some Spectre, Meltdown Variants

Intel’s new ninth-generation CPUs come packed with hardware-based protections against two variants of the infamous Meltdown and Spectre speculative execution attacks. The ninth-generation desktop Core processors are dubbed Coffee Lake, and became available for preorder on Tuesday. they’re built t...

Researchers Heat Up Cold-Boot Attack That Works on All Laptops

A pair of researchers have developed an attack method that can bypass mitigations for cold-boot attacks on laptops. A physical attacker can compromise a laptop that’s in sleep mode, potentially lifting sensitive passwords, encryption keys and other information. The ramifications are, on the...

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...

CVE-2017-7526

libgcrypt before version 1.7.8 is vulnerable to a cache side-channel attack resulting into a complete break of RSA-1024 while using the left-to-right method for computing the sliding-window expansion. The same attack is believed to work on RSA-2048 with moderately more computation. This...

Microsoft Windows: Hardware-based encryption for OS drives (allowed algorithms)

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winosrestrictcrypto.nasl 11532 2018-09-21 19:07:30Z cfischer $ Check value for Configure use of hardware-based encryption for operating system drives: Restrict crypto algorithms or cipher suites to the following Authors:...

Microsoft Windows: Use of hardware-based encryption (allowed algorithms)

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winhwrmrestrictcrypto.nasl 11532 2018-09-21 19:07:30Z cfischer $ Check value for Configure use of hardware-based encryption for removable data drives: Restrict crypto algorithms or cipher suites to the following Authors:...

Microsoft Windows: Use of hardware-based encryption (removable data drives)

This policy setting allows you to manage BitLocker Copyright C 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Microsoft Windows: Use of hardware-based encryption (restrict algorithms)

This policy setting allows you to manage BitLocker Copyright C 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Microsoft Windows: Use of hardware-based encryption for OS drives

This policy setting allows you to manage BitLocker Copyright C 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Microsoft Windows: Use of hardware-based encryption (software encryption failover)

This policy setting allows you to manage BitLocker Copyright C 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...