Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Hackers Gain Path to Potential Account Takeover by Turning Off SMS Second Factor Twitter accounts that use SMS for two-factor authentication are at a heightened risk of account takeover with the disclosure that texting "STOP" to the verification service results in it being turned off.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

But strong authentication can thwart even the most clever phishing campaigns, says Brett Winterford, regional chief security officer for APJ at Okta. Successful account takeovers are one of the most common ways that organizations end up with attackers in their systems.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 10, 2024

Don't Panic,' Say Developers Security researchers identified an attack method against a commonly used network authentication protocol that dates back to the dial-up internet and relies on an obsolete hashing function. Researchers say "a well-resourced attacker" could make it practical.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 24, 2023

The next big thing is passwordless authentication. First and foremost, most solutions rely on connected devices like mobile phones to authenticate users. Attackers will continue to find ways to breach our systems, and authentication cryptography will become increasingly vulnerable to attack. Some solutions do this today.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Passwordless Authentication without Secrets! This highlights an increasing demand for advanced authentication methods like passkeys and multi-factor authentication (MFA), which provide robust security for most use cases. Similarly, in retail and manufacturing, delays caused by authentication procedures reduce overall efficiency.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

About the essayist: Ambuj Kumar is Co-founder and CEO of Simbian , AI Agents for cybersecurity The post GUEST ESSAY: Massive NPD breach tells us its high time to replace SSNs as an authenticator first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 3, 2024

Company Says Single-Factor Authentication Accounts Are to Blame - Not a Flaw Hackers are targeting clients of artificial intelligence data platform provider Snowflake that lack multifactor authentication, the company warns.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 10, 2024

Mandatory Multifactor Authentication Among New Features Given to Administrators In the wake of multiple customers of Snowflake collectively losing terabytes of data to attackers, the cloud-based data warehousing platform has rolled out a swath of cybersecurity improvements, including allowing administrators to make multifactor authentication mandatory (..)

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

All Organizations That Use X Should Review Their Two-Factor Authentication Settings Google Cloud's Mandiant says its account at X, formerly Twitter, was hijacked and used to link to cryptocurrency phishing pages after an attacker guessed the account password, apparently after Twitter last year deactivated the account's SMS-based two-factor authentication, (..)

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 4, 2024

Device Bound Session Credentials Tie Authentication Cookies to Specific Computers Google is prototyping a method to stymie hackers who get around multifactor security by stealing authentication cookies from desktops.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 28, 2024

Insights from recent cyberattacks where weak authentication measures were circumvented Insights from recent cyberattacks where weak authentication measures were circumvented

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 14, 2024

Taiwanese Hardware Manufacturer Fixes Improper Authentication Flaw QNAP Systems on Saturday released a patch for a critical bug that allows unauthorized access to devices without authentication.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 1, 2021

Flaw Could Enable Access to Secret Encryption Key A critical authentication bypass vulnerability could enable hackers to remotely compromise programmable logic controllers made by industrial automation giant Rockwell Automation, according to the cybersecurity company Claroty. Rockwell has issued mitigation recommendations.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Investigators Find Encryption, Monitoring, Logging and Whitelisting Failures Inadequate database and privileged account monitoring, incomplete multi-factor authentication and insufficient use of encryption: Britain's privacy regulator has cited a raft of failures that contributed to the four-year breach of the Starwood guest reservation system discovered (..)

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 29, 2020

Email Service Provider Moving to Implement Additional Security Measures Security professionals are expressing surprise that email service provider Sendgrid did not have multifactor authentication in place to protect its customer accounts, which resulted in a large, but unknown, number being compromised with the data being sold on the darknet.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In February, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about a novel cybercrime service that helped attackers intercept the one-time passwords (OTPs) that many websites require as a second authentication factor in addition to passwords. That is true two-factor authentication: Something you have, and something you know (and maybe also even something you are).

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 13, 2021

Capitol by a violent mob, members of which allegedly accessed lawmakers' systems and stole devices, offers cybersecurity professional lessons to learn on authentication, encryption and more, says cybersecurity expert Brian Honan. Brian Honan: Security Professionals Can Take Action to Minimize Risks The physical breach of the U.S.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 16, 2021

Edna Conway, Wendy Nather and Michelle Dennedy on SASE, CIAM and Supply Chain Risk No script, no filter: Just Microsoft’s Edna Conway and Cisco’s Wendy Nather gathering with privacy leader Michelle Dennedy to discuss the impact of the SolarWinds supply chain attack and to play "Buzzword Mystery Date" with SASE, CIAM and "passwordless" authentication (..)

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2021

The Princeton team further found 100 of those 259 numbers were linked to leaked login credentials on the web, which could enable account hijackings that defeat SMS-based multi-factor authentication. While you’re at it, consider removing your phone number as a primary or secondary authentication mechanism wherever possible.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 26, 2021

Attackers Could Exploit 'Critical' Flaw to Remotely Execute Arbitrary Code VMware is warning all vCenter Server administrators to patch their software to fix both a serious vulnerability that could be used to execute arbitrary code, as well as a separate authentication flaw.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

Expert Warns of Copycat Attack Risk; Telco Hadn't Enabled Two-Factor Authentication In the wake of an apparently weak password being harvested by information-stealing malware and used to disrupt telecommunications giant Orange Spain's internet traffic, an expert is warning all organizations to beware of copycat attacks - and to lock down their internet (..)

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ubiquiti , a major vendor of cloud-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as routers, network video recorders, security cameras and access control systems, is urging customers to change their passwords and enable multi-factor authentication. In an email sent to customers today, Ubiquiti Inc.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 21, 2022

One example is Genesis Market , where customers can search for stolen credentials and authentication cookies from a broad range of popular online destinations. What’s more, relatively few cybercrime shops online offer their users any sort of multi-factor authentication.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 27, 2024

Attackers are meeting the rise of multifactor authentication by using tools such as Tycoon 2FA.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 12, 2024

Tiny variations in pitch, tone and timbre make human voices an ideal method for authenticating customers - as long as computers can't be trained to synthesize those pitch, tone and timbre characteristics in real time. They can.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

First-Ever Outside Investment Will Allow CIAM Provider to Better Authenticate Users A Colorado-based customer identity platform hauled in $65 million to effectively identify and authenticate users with government IDs or mobile phones. and Europe.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Advisory Warns Iranian Threat Actors Use 'Push Bombing' to Target Critical Sectors Iranian cyber actors are increasingly using brute force techniques, such as password spraying and multifactor authentication push bombing, to target critical infrastructure sectors, according to a cybersecurity advisory released Wednesday by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure (..)

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Data Breach Today

MAY 2, 2024

All Dropbox Sign Users' Emails Stolen, Plus Some MFA and OAuth Tokens, API Keys Dropbox said hackers breached its infrastructure and stole swaths of customer data for its legally binding electronic signature service, Dropbox Sign, including names, emails, hashed passwords and authentication tokens.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Threat Actor Used Session Hijacking Technique to Access Files of 134 Okta Customers Days after announcing a security compromise, cloud-based Identity and authentication management provider Okta said that an unknown threat actor accessed files of 134 customers by after an employee signed in to a personal Google profile on the Chrome browser of an Okta-managed (..)

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Krebs on Security

MAY 29, 2021

Here’s the story of how bogus reviews on a counterfeit Microsoft Authenticator browser extension exposed dozens of other extensions that siphoned personal and financial data. Happily, identifying and tracking these fake reviewer accounts is often the easiest way to spot scams. Image: chrome-stats.com. “It’s great!

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Attackers Apparently Stole Authenticated Sessions to Hit Telecommunications Giant Comcast says attackers stole personal information pertaining to 35.9

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Krebs on Security

JULY 26, 2024

Google says it recently fixed an authentication weakness that allowed crooks to circumvent the email verification required to create a Google Workspace account, and leverage that to impersonate a domain holder at third-party services that allow logins through Google’s “Sign in with Google” feature.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

political campaigns defend against increasing cyber threats from Iran, recommending stronger multi-factor authentication, phishing-resistant protocols, and vigilance against social engineering.

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