Apple Addresses Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Embraces Two-Factor Authentication in iOS 9

Apple pushed out iOS 9 Wednesday, addressing a cornucopia of vulnerabilities, including bugs that could lead to arbitrary code execution, credential leakage, and interface spoofing among other issues. But conspicuously absent from the update however is a fix for the vulnerability in AirDrop that...

devise-two-factor 1.1.0 and earlier vulnerable to replay attacks

A OTP replay vulnerability in devise-two-factor 1.1.0 and earlier allows local attackers to shoulder-surf a user's TOTP verification code and use it to login after the user has authenticated. By not "burning" a previously used TOTP, devise-two-factor allows a narrow window of opportunity aka the...

Apple Boosts iOS 9 Security with improved Two-Factor Authentication

Apple iOS 9, codenamed Monarch, will be available to the world on September 16th. While most of the upgrades on iOS 9 focus on making devices: Faster Smarter Secure and more efficient. Today we are going to discuss the improved Two-Factor Authentication 2FA pumped within the new iOS operating...

Researchers Outline Bugs in Yahoo, PayPal, Magento

Researchers recently discovered a smattering of vulnerabilities in web applications and mobile applications belonging to companies like Yahoo, PayPal, Magento, and Shopify that could have led to account theft, session hijacking, and phishing, among other consequences. Hadji Samir, Ebrahim Hegazy,...

Best Practices to Protect You, Your Network, and Your Information

The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center NCCIC and its partners responded to a series of data breaches in the public and private sector over the last year, helping organizations through incident response actions, conducting damage assessments, and implementing restoration...

Valve Patches Password Reset Vulnerability in Steam

Valve Software has reportedly patched a vulnerability in the popular online Steam gaming platform that enabled account hijacking through its password reset mechanism. Kotaku, a popular blog among gamers, said that a number of prominent Steam accounts and Twitch streamers were stolen or accessed...

KeyBox - A web-based SSH console that centrally manages administrative access to systems

KeyBox is a web-based SSH console that centrally manages administrative access to systems. Web-based administration is combined with management and distribution of user's public SSH keys. Key management and administration is based on profiles assigned to defined users. Administrators can login...

Android new vulnerability: hackers control camera to take pictures to upload-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

According to foreign media reports, the former Google engineer Simon Isidore（Szymon Sidor found the Android system there is a new vulnerability, the vulnerability would allow malicious software to control Android device on the camera, and the user unknowingly take pictures, can even upload photos...

Malicious Gaming App Infects More than 1 Million Android Users

It's not at all surprising that the Google Play Store is surrounded by a number of malicious applications that may gain users' attention to fall victim for one, but this time it might be even worse than you thought. Threat researchers from security firm ESET have discovered a malicious...

OPM Hack Expands to Include Data of 21.5M People

UPDATE–The ever-expanding data breach at the Office of Personnel Management has now spread to include the Social Security numbers and other personal data of a total of 21.5 million people, and the toll also now includes the agency’s director, Katherine Archuleta, who resigned Friday morning...

Stolen U.S. Government Credentials Found Online

Credentials stolen in breaches and sundry hacks belonging to close to 100 unique U.S. government domains are scattered among a number of paste sites and are searchable in other locations online. Analysts at Recorded Future said on Wednesday that through open source intelligence gathering and...

OPM Breach Dates Back to December

The attack on the Office of Personnel Management that was disclosed earlier this month began as early as December 2014 and likely was the end result of a social engineering attack that enabled the hackers to gain valid user credentials and move around OPM’s network. During a hearing on Capitol Hi...

Snapchat Offers Users Optional Two-Factor Authentication

Snapchat’s popularity with teens doesn’t run in parallel with the opinion of security and privacy professionals wary of its practices in guarding users’ data. With the release of the latest version of the photo and video sharing app, Snapchat added an optional two-factor authentication feature th...

Coinbase: Two-factor authentication (via SMS)

Hello Coinbase Security Team I just found a problem in Two-factor authentication mechanism, here is the details and how to reproduce this issue: I have two accounts with two emails on coinbase.com i active 2FA on the both of two emails with this phone number +201066462288. From Chrome i will try ...

VK.com: API: Bug in method auth.validatePhone

The bug is that auth.validatePhone does not validate the parameter "sid". In theory he should be in the format "2fa$userId$appId$hash", but to get the correct result send SMS/make call enough only "2fa$userId$anyText". For example, these requests will send a SMS:...

Penn State Offline Following Advanced Two-Year Cyberattack

Penn State University President Eric J. Barron announced Friday that the university disconnected its networks from the public Internet after sustaining an intrusion into the College of Engineering that had lasted longer than two years. It will be a matter of days before Penn State brings its...

Hacker Finds a Simple Way to Bypass Google Password Alert

Less than 24 hours after Google launched the new Phishing alert extension Password Alert, a security researcher was able to bypass the feature using deadly simple exploits. On Wednesday, the search engine giant launched a new Password Alert Chrome extension to alert its users whenever they...

Dyre Banking Trojan Avoids Sandbox Detection

A number of unidentified commercial and freely available sandboxes fail to detect a new version of the Dyre banking Trojan, which was recently blamed for more than $1 million in losses to financial institutions and enterprises. The new strain of Dyre, also known as Dyreza, uses a fairly new...

Google Releases Password Alert Extension for Chrome

Google is rolling out a new extension for Chrome that will monitor users’ logins and warn them if they enter a Google password on a non-Google page, a move designed to help protect users against phishing attacks. The new extension, called Password Alert, works for both consumer accounts and Googl...

SendGrid Email Delivery Service Hack

SendGrid, which sells a cloud-based email delivery service, has admitted that the extent of a hack disclosed three weeks ago was much more serious than originally reported. The company said an employee account was compromised and used to access other systems that contained customer and employee...