CFP Time: Missing Two Factor Authentication in /admin/login

Hello Team, First of all this report is just mainly concern for Suggested security improvements based on your policy page. If and only if not mean possible, please do let me know. Thanks! INTRODUCTION Administrative panel is one of the main entry point for the website owner to manage their web ap...

Hijacking Online Accounts Via Hacked Voicemail Systems

LEIPZIG, GERMANY – Voicemail systems are vulnerable to compromise via brute-force attacks against the four-digit personal identification numbers PINs that protect them. Researchers say a malicious user can thus access the voicemail system to then take over online accounts for services like...

X (Formerly Twitter): Ability to perform actions (Tweet, Retweet, DM) and other actions, unauthenticated, on any account with SMS enabled.

Summary: By knowing the mobile phone number associated with a Twitter account, or by using random mobile phone numbers! It is possible to perform the following actions against a target without their knowledge or interaction. With no account takeover scenario. It's a case of, if I know the mobile...

Phishing Campaign Toolkit: King Phisher

King Phisher is a tool for testing and promoting user awareness by simulating real world phishing attacks. It features an easy to use, yet very flexible architecture allowing full control over both emails and server content. King Phisher can be used to run campaigns ranging from simple awareness...

CVE-2018-20231

CVE-2018-20231 affects the WordPress Two Factor Authentication plugin (pre-1.3.13). The vulnerability is a CSRF flaw that allows remote attackers to disable 2FA by triggering tfa_enable_tfa due to missing nonce validation. Impact is partial to high: it can disable two-factor protection, leaving a...

PT-2018-15298

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress two-factor-authentication plugin versions prior to 1.3.13 Description The issue allows remote attackers to disable two-factor authentication 2FA due to missing nonce validation. This can be achieved by exploiting the tfa enable tfa...

CVE-2018-20231: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Cross Site Request Forgery CSRF in the two-factor-authentication plugin before 1.3.13 for WordPress allows remote attackers to disable 2FA via the tfaenabletfa parameter due to missing nonce validation...

Two Factor Authentication <= 1.3.12 - Disable Two Factor Authentication CSRF

According to the changelog: "Fix a logged-in CSRF vulnerability reported by Martijn Korse www.bitnesswise.com. Due to a missing nonce check, if an attacker was able to persuade a personally-targetted victim who was currently logged in to their WordPress account to visit a personally-crafted for t...

Real-Time Attacks Against Two-Factor Authentication

Attackers are targeting two-factor authentication systems: Attackers working on behalf of the Iranian government collected detailed information on targets and used that knowledge to write spear-phishing emails that were tailored to the targets' level of operational security, researchers with...

Bad Consumer Security Advice

There are lots of articles about there telling people how to better secure their computers and online accounts. While I agree with some of it, this article contains some particularly bad advice: 1. Never, ever, ever use public unsecured Wi-Fi such as the Wi-Fi in a café, hotel or airport. To...

Instagram Accidentally Exposed Some Users' Passwords In Plaintext

Instagram has recently patched a security issue in its website that might have accidentally exposed some of its users' passwords in plain text. The company recently started notifying affected users of a security bug that resides in a newly offered feature called "Download Your Data" that allows...

Troy Hunt on Passwords

Troy Hunt has a good essay about why passwords are here to stay, despite all their security problems: This is why passwords aren't going anywhere in the foreseeable future and why insert thing here isn't going to kill them. No amount of focusing on how bad passwords are or how many accounts have...

CVE-2018-16465

Nextcloud Server is affected when used with versions prior to 14.0.0. The issue is a missing state that would have enforced a second factor at login if the 2FA provider failed to load, effectively allowing a 2FA bypass under certain conditions. This vulnerability is described in advisories NC-SA-...

CVE-2018-16465: Improper Authentication

Missing state in Nextcloud Server prior to 14.0.0 would not enforce the use of a second factor at login if the the provider of the second factor failed to load...

Phishing for knowledge

When we talk about phishing, top of mind are fake banking sites, payment systems, as well as mail and other globally popular services. However, cybercriminals have their fingers in far more pies than that. Unobviously, perhaps, students and university faculties are also in the line of fire. The...

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...

Facebook Is Using Your Two-Factor Authentication Phone Number to Target Advertising

From Kashmir Hill: Facebook is not content to use the contact information you willingly put into your Facebook profile for advertising. It is also using contact information you handed over for security purposes and contact information you didn't hand over at all, but that was collected from other...

Is two-factor authentication (2FA) as secure as it seems?

Two-factor authentication 2FA was invented to add an extra layer of security to the—now considered old-fashioned and insecure—simple login procedure of entering a username and password. One of the most well-known examples of 2FA is when you try to log into a familiar website from a different...

U.S. Mobile Giants Want to be Your Online Identity

The four major U.S. wireless carriers today detailed a new initiative that may soon let Web sites eschew passwords and instead authenticate visitors by leveraging data elements unique to each customer's phone and mobile subscriber account, such as location, customer reputation, and physical...

How to Secure SSH Access to the NetScaler Appliance with Public Key Authentication

This article contains information about securing administrative access to the NetScaler appliance by using the public key authentication mechanism of Secure Shell SSH. Requirements To complete the procedure in this document, the NetScaler appliance must have the following tools: An SSH client...