Beyond the Charts -The Human Factor in Cybersecurity and Financial Decisions

By Owais Sultan Beneath the surface of those analytical gear lies a crucial element that regularly shapes the future of investments… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Beyond the Charts -The Human Factor in Cybersecurity and Financial Decisions...

The Human Factor in Cybersecurity

By Owais Sultan Cybersecurity is an increasingly important issue that’s becoming more complex as reliance on technology grows. While technology is… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: The Human Factor in Cybersecurity...

We COVID-Clicked on Garbage, Report Finds: Podcast

Squawking pets, stir-crazy kids, Tiger King: Is it any wonder that work-from-home humans clicked on malicious CAPTCHAs at the astonishing rate of 50 times more than the non-pandemic year before? In the company’s annual Human Factor 2021 report assessing how the threat landscape morphed over the...

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...

Why SecOps is (Still) the Future

Editor’s Note: Sam Bocetta, a guest author on the VMware Carbon Black blog, is a freelance journalist specializing in U.S. diplomacy and national security, with emphases on technology trends in cyber warfare, cyber defense, and cryptography. SecOps is not a new idea. Unfortunately, however, it is...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Human Factor aka com.magzter.thehumanfactor application 3.01 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

CVE-2014-7107

The CVE-2014-7107 entry concerns The Human Factor (com.magzter.thehumanfactor) Android app version 3.01, which fails to verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers. Root cause: missing certificate validation in the app’s SSL/TLS handling. Impact: potential MITM where an attacker could spoof the se...