RSA MFA Agent Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

RSA MFA Agent is a suite of authentication agent software. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in version 2.0 of the RSA MFA Agent for Windows-based platforms, which stems from a lack of proper authentication of client data by a WEB application. A local attacker can exploit this...

Insecure Randomness

Overview org.apereo.cas:cas-server-support-simple-mfa is an is package that allows Apereo CAS to act as a multifactor authentication provider on its own, issuing tokens and sending them to end-users via pre-defined communication channels such as email or text messages. Affected versions of this...

NIST Publishes Multifactor Authentication Practice Guide

The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence NCCoE has published NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide: Multifactor Authentication for E-Commerce. The guide provides e-commerce organizations multifactor authentication MFA protection methods they...

CVE-2019-6481

Abine Blur 7.8.2431 allows remote attackers to conduct "Second-Factor Auth Bypass" attacks by using the "Perform a right-click operation to access a forgotten dev menu to insert user passwords that otherwise would require the user to accept a second-factor request in a mobile app." approach,...

Design/Logic Flaw

Abine Blur 7.8.2431 allows remote attackers to conduct "Second-Factor Auth Bypass" attacks by using the "Perform a right-click operation to access a forgotten dev menu to insert user passwords that otherwise would require the user to accept a second-factor request in a mobile app." approach,...

CVE-2019-6481

CVE-2019-6481 affects Abine Blur 7.8.2431 via the Affected Chrome Plugin component, enabling a remote attacker to bypass second‑factor authentication by using a right‑click sequence to access a forgotten dev menu to insert user passwords that would normally require MFA approval. This mirrors the ...

CVE-2019-6481

Abine Blur 7.8.2431 allows remote attackers to conduct "Second-Factor Auth Bypass" attacks by using the "Perform a right-click operation to access a forgotten dev menu to insert user passwords that otherwise would require the user to accept a second-factor request in a mobile app." approach,...

Microsoft’s Cyber Defense Operations Center shares best practices

Today, a single breach, physical or virtual, can cause millions of dollars of damage to an organization and potentially billions in financial losses to the global economy. Each week seems to bring a new disclosure of a cybersecurity breach somewhere in the world. As we look at the current state o...

DNS Infrastructure Hijacking Campaign

The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center NCCIC, part of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, is aware of a global Domain Name System DNS infrastructure hijacking campaign. Using compromised credentials, an attacker can modify the location to which an...

U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense System Rife with Security Holes

The classified networks in the facilities where ballistic missile defense system technical information is housed are vulnerable to a raft of internal and external cyber-threats, according to the Department of Defense Inspector General. In a heavily redacted report issued last week, the DoD issued...

ThreatList: Password Hygiene Remains Lackluster in Global Businesses

When it comes to password behaviors in the workplace, the average business is doing just an okay job, scoring a middling score in a credentials-security benchmarking analysis of organizations’ habits. Notably, the data also shows that password-sharing is still prevalent in the workplace – althoug...

How Microsoft 365 Security integrates with your broader IT ecosystem—part 3

Todays post was coauthored by Debraj Ghosh, Senior Product Marketing Manager, and Diana Kelley, Cybersecurity Field CTO. Customer satisfaction is one of the most important goals for Microsoft 365 Security. In part 1 of this series, we discussed Microsofts overall security strategy for connecting...

P = NP: Cloud data protection in vulnerable non-production environments

Data is the holy grail of your cloud workloads for attackers. Data breaches are the kind of breaches that make the news. With the recent European Union General Data Protection Regulations GDPR, they will make even bigger headlines. From an enterprise point of view, the most challenging aspect of...

Move away from passwords, deploy Windows Hello. Today!

Something we understood from the very beginning with Windows Hello for Business is our customers would approach Windows 10 in a series of phases. The first phase is to simply deploy the platform itself. From there, additional phases would follow to take advantage of optional Windows 10 technologi...

Authentication Bypass

cas-server-core-authentication is vulnerable to authentication bypass. The library does read the correct value when checking for a attribute bypass, causing any principle with the bypass.principalAttributeName attribute to be able to bypass multifactor authentication...

Insider threats in your work inbox

Recently, our friends at Barracuda found a new phishing campaign that banks on the popularity of cloud services used in most businesses, such as Microsoft Office 365. According to their blog post, this latest scheme takes advantage of the natural trust employees place on messages they receive fro...

New Technique to Hijack Social Media Accounts

Access Now has documented it being used against a Twitter user, but it also works against other social media accounts: With the Doubleswitch attack, a hijacker takes control of a victim's account through one of several attack vectors. People who have not enabled an app-based form of multifactor...

Proposed NIST Password Guidelines Soften Length, Complexity Focus

A comment period has closed on NIST’s new password guidelines for federal agencies that challenge the effectiveness of traditional behaviors around authentication such as an insistence on complex passwords and scheduled resets. As more tech companies move away from passwords and toward multistep...

500 Million Yahoo Accounts Stolen By State-Sponsored Hackers

Yahoo says it was the victim of state-sponsored hackers who stole information associated with 500 million accounts. Yahoo CISO Bob Lord said the attack happened on the company’s network in late 2014; he did not name the country responsible. “The account information may have included names, email...

IRS Reinstates Get Transcript Service Following Hack

The Internal Revenue Service has reinstated its Get Transcript service, more than a year after hackers managed to manipulate settings in the system in order to steal information on more than 720,000 U.S. taxpayers. The IRS suspended the service – which gives citizens a way to look up line-by-line...