Okta Verify 安全漏洞

Okta Verify is a lightweight application from Okta that allows you to securely access your application with two-step verification, ensuring that you and only you have access to your application account. A security vulnerability exists in Okta Verify versions prior to 4.10.7 that stems from the...

Attackers demand ransoms for stolen LinkedIn accounts

An ongoing campaign targeting LinkedIn accounts has led to victims losing control of their accounts, or being locked out following repeated login attempts. Whether the attackers are using brute force methods or credential stuffing isn't known, but because some victims are being being locked out...

WhatsApp hijackers take over your account while you sleep

Late last week, Twitter user Zuk @ihackbanme tweeted an issue about WhatsApp that has the potential to turn heads. The recent WhatsApp accounts takeover is simple and genius. This is how it works: You're sleeping. A "hacker" tries to login to your account via WhatsApp. You get a text message with...

CVE-2023-23566

A 2-Step Verification problem in Axigen 10.3.3.52 allows an attacker to access a mailbox by bypassing 2-Step Verification when they try to add an account to any third-party webmail service or add an account to Outlook or Gmail, etc. with IMAP or POP3 without any verification code...

Roblox breached: Internal documents posted online by unknown attackers

A data compromise situation has impacted Roblox Corporation, the developers of the massive smash-hit video game Roblox. An as-yet unknown attacker has breached an employee account, and is in the process of exposing the data theyve collected. Nobody knows if theyve exhausted their newly-plundered...

WhatsApp accounts hijacked by call forwarding

In a short post on LinkedIn Rahul Sasi, founder and CEO of CloudSEK, explains how WhatsApp account takeovers are possible. The methods consists of several steps and it takes some social engineering skills, but it’s good to be aware of the possibility and how it works. It starts with the threat...

Google to auto-enrol users, YouTubers into 2SV

Googles announced some changes to how its helping millions of its users stay safe and secure. The biggest of those changes is that it plans to auto-enrol its users in to two-step verification, or 2SV. 2SV adds an extra layer when logging into your account and the additional step happens after you...

Google to turn on 2-factor authentication by default for 150 million users

Google has announced plans to automatically enroll about 150 million users into its two-factor authentication scheme by the end of the year as part of its ongoing efforts to prevent unauthorized access to accounts and improve security. In addition, the internet giant said it also intends to requi...

A week in security (May 3 – 9)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we discussed how Spectre attacks have come back from the dead; why Facebook banned Instragram ads by Signal; we highlighted the differences between the most popular VPN protocols; pointed out that Google is about to start automatically enrolling users in two-step...

Google to start automatically enrolling users in two-step verification “soon”

If you use a Google account, it may soon be mandatory to sign up to Googles two-step verification program. As recently as 2017, a tiny amount of GMail users made use of its two-step options. Maybe the uptake is still slow, and Google has decided enough is enough. With so much valuable data stuffe...

Researcher logs into Trump’s Twitter with password MAGA2020

By Waqas The Dutch researcher Victor Gevers guessed the password as MAGA2020 and noticed Trump did not use two-step verification on his Twitter account. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Researcher logs into Trumps Twitter with password MAGA2020...

Android's Built-in Security Key Now Works With iOS Devices For Secure Login

In April this year, a software update from Google overnight turned all Android phones, running Android 7.0 Nougat and up, into a FIDO-certified hardware security key as part of a push to encourage two-step verification. The feature made it possible for users to confirm their identity when logging...

Android's Built-in Security Key Now Works With iOS Devices For Secure Login

In April this year, a software update from Google overnight turned all Android phones, running Android 7.0 Nougat and up, into a FIDO-certified hardware security key as part of a push to encourage two-step verification. The feature made it possible for users to confirm their identity when logging...

Top 10 security steps in Microsoft 365 that political campaigns can take today

The increasing frequency of cyberattacks make clear that more must be done to protect key democratic institutions from cyber-enabled interference. Withjust a fewweeks left before theU.S.midtermelections and early voting under way,campaignsmust stay vigilant in protecting against cyberattacks to...

Google Cracks Down on Malicious Chrome Extensions in Major Update

Google on Monday announced major changes to its Chrome Web Store as the company tries to ax the malicious extensions that have continuously popped up on its platform over the years. The array of security improvements include a stricter extension review process, new code-readability requirements...

Speaking at TEDx

I was privileged enough to be invited to speak at a TEDx event in Dornbirn, Austria. I speak at 2-3 events per week, with audiences from 25-2500 people, so why did this one make me nervous? I don’t get nervous before speaking in public. Lots of practice and plenty of material to work with usually...

Timely Password-Change Call from Twitter, as Bugs Hit WebEx and GPON routers

The cyber security news cycle is always active, so to help you stay in the loop here’s a selection of incidents that caught our attention over the past week or so involving, among others, Twitter, Cisco and GPON routers. Twitter picks a good day for password-change call As “change your password”...

Awesome! WhatsApp Now Lets You Send Files of Any Format

Have you ever felt like wishing of sending any type of file immediately to your friends and office colleagues on WhatsApp directly, instead of just contacts, images or documents? Well, now you can… The latest version of WhatsApp for Android and iOS now allows users to send and receive any type of...

Patched Flaw in Bosch Diagnostic Dongle Allowed Researchers to Shut Off Engine

Two vulnerabilities were identified in Bosch’s Drivelog Connect OBD-II dongle and smartphone app that allowed researchers to shut off the engine of a vehicle. One of the issues was patched via server-side fix, Bosch said in an April 13 statement, while the other in the dongle itself will be handl...

Google Adds Security Key Enforcement to G Suite Apps

Google on Wednesday pumped more life into the use of physical keys as a second form of authentication when it added Security Key enforcement support to G Suite. Admins inside enterprises managing deployments of the suite of cloud-based productivity apps, formerly known as Google Apps, can now...