This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
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.
A critical authentication bypass vulnerability could be exploited by remote attackers to Rockwell Automation programmable logic controllers (PLCs). “An attacker who is able to extract the secret key would be able to authenticate to any Rockwell Logix controller.” ” reads the advisory published by CISA.
A couple of researchers demonstrated how to bypass vein based authentication using a fake hand build from a photo. If you consider vein based authentication totally secure, you have to know that a group of researchers demonstrated the opposite at the Chaos Communication Congress hacking conference. Pierluigi Paganini.
The platform allows remote access and management of connected devices to manufacturers through an agent is installed on devices. The impact of these flaws is widespread, experts determine that the issues impact more than 150 device models from over 100 manufacturers. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.
Perhaps not coincidently, it comes at a time when enterprises have begun adopting passwordless authentication systems in mission-critical parts of their internal operations. Fortifications, such as multi-factor authentication (MFA) and password managers, proved to be mere speed bumps. Coming advances.
A flaw in millions of RFID cards manufactured by Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics allows these contactless cards to be cloned instantly. Researchers from security firm Quarkslab discovered a backdoor in millions of RFID cards manufactured by the Chinese chip manufacturer Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics. Let’s take a breath.
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.
The Italian luxury sports car manufacturer Ferrari confirmed the availability of internal documents online, but said it has no evidence of cyber attack. Documents belonging to the Italian luxury sports car manufacturer Ferrari are circulating online, the company confirmed their authenticity stating it is not aware of cyber attacks.
After looking at 28 of the most popular manufacturers, our research team found 3.5 While the default security settings have improved over the review period, some popular brands either offer default passwords or no authentication, meaning anyone can spy on the spies. Surge in internet-facing cameras. The reign of a Chinese brand.
Greek intelligence service used surveillance malware to spy on a journalist, Reuters reports Slack resets passwords for about 0.5% of its users due to the exposure of salted password hashes Twitter confirms zero-day used to access data of 5.4
The FBI is working with private sector partners who manufacture smart devices to advise customers about the scheme and how to avoid being victimized. The FBI recommends users to enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for smart devices exposed online. Users should update their passwords on a regular basis.
. “We’re publishing the details of a new vulnerability (tracked under CVE-2022-30563) affecting the implementation of the Open Network Video Interface Forum (ONVIF) WS-UsernameToken authentication mechanism in some IP cameras developed by Dahua, a very popular manufacturer of IP-based surveillance solutions.”
How to activate multifactor authentication everywhere. The impact of not having multifactor authentication (MFA) activated for all users is now well known by enterprises. The challenge of multifactor authentication everywhere. Variety of a user’s authentication journey…. Variety of a user’s authentication journey….
Gunn Will Prepare Token's Wearable Authentication Ring for Large-Scale Production Token selected former OneSpan CRO John Gunn as CEO to scale the organization and prepare its wearable authentication ring for large-scale production.
Flow computers are used to calculate volume and flow rates for oil and gas that are critical to electric power manufacturing and distribution. Researchers from industrial security firm Claroty disclosed details of a vulnerability affecting ABB Totalflow flow computers and remote controllers.
Manufacturer BD and CISA Issue Warnings Medical device maker Becton Dickinson and federal authorities have issued alerts concerning an authentication weakness that, if exploited, could result in a denial-of-service attack on certain models of the BD Alaris PC Unit drug infusion and monitoring system.
Security researchers at CyberArk Labs discovered a security bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-34466 , affecting the Windows Hello facial authentication process, An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to login systems running the Windows 10 OS. link] “ Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.
Researchers found multiple backdoors in popular VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) appliance made by the German manufacturer Auerswald. Researchers from RedTeam Pentesting discovered multiple backdoors in a popular VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) appliance made by the German manufacturer Auerswald. 7}' 1432d89.
The security researcher Hasib Vhora from SonicWall reported the vulnerability CVE-2024-38856 along with other security experts. “The SonicWall Capture Labs threat research team has discovered a pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability in Apache OFBiz being tracked as CVE-2024-38856 with a CVSS score of 9.8.
The Boeing Company, commonly known as Boeing, is one of the world’s largest aerospace manufacturers and defense contractors. Threat actors exploited this vulnerability to hijack existing authenticated sessions and bypass multifactor authentication or other strong authentication requirements. In 2022, Boeing recorded $66.61
The Outpost24 researcher Timothy Hjort reported the flaw to the manufacturer and published a detailed analysis and PoC exploit codes for the flaws. An attacker can exploit the vulnerabilities to perform command injection attacks and achieve remote code execution. Two flaws can also allow attackers to elevate privileges.
Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical authentication bypass issue (CVE-2021-20090 ) affecting home routers with Arcadyan firmware. Threat actors actively exploit a critical authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-20090 , impacting home routers with Arcadyan firmware to deploy a Mirai bot.
The SonicWall Capture Labs threat research team has discovered a pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability in Apache OFBiz being tracked as CVE-2024-38856 with a CVSS score of 9.8. The security researcher Hasib Vhora from SonicWall reported the vulnerability CVE-2024-38856 along with other security experts. wrote Vhora.
The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.”
It is possible for an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to impersonate a previously paired/bonded device and successfully authenticate without knowing the link key. “Such vulnerabilities include the lack of mandatory mutual authentication, overly permissive role switching, and an authentication procedure downgrade.”
EventBot is a mobile banking trojan and infostealer that abuses Android’s accessibility features to steal user data from financial applications, read user SMS messages, and steal SMS messages to allow the malware to bypass two-factor authentication.” ” reads the analysis published by Cybereason. ” concludes the report.
“The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) warns according to §7BSIlaw before using virus protection software from the Russian manufacturer Kaspersky. BSI remarks that the trust in the reliability and self-protection of a manufacturer as well as his authentic ability to act is crucial for the safe use of any defense software.
Most of the attacks have been reported in July, the organizations hit by the ransomware gang operate in professional services, construction, manufacturing, retail, and food industries. Ransomware operators also stole data from the victims and leaked it online when they refused to pay the ransom. in Australia since 2020.
A high-severity vulnerability affecting CompactRIO controllers manufactured by the vendor National Instruments (NI) could allow remote attackers to disrupt production processes in an organization. A serious flaw in National Instruments CompactRIO controllers could allow remote attackers to disrupt production processes in an organization.
Most targeted sectors have been Government/Military (17% of all exploit attempts), followed by Manufacturing (14%), and then Banking (11%). The third vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-26858 , is a post-authentication arbitrary file write vulnerability in Exchange.
This is precisely what the consortium of software companies and device manufacturers, led Google, Amazon and Apple, set out to achieve when Matter was conceived four years ago. Matter works much the way website authentication and website traffic encryption gets executed. This same approach really could be applied to other industries.
First, the identities of any two digital entities – a sensor and a control server, for instance, or even a microservice and a container — must be authenticated, and, second, the data exchanged between any two such digital instances must be encrypted. What we’re seeing is pretty basic things around authentication.
is an authentication bypass vulnerability in VMware ESXi. However, Talos IR believes that brute-force authentication via internet scanning was likely the initial access method. The threat actors moved laterally within the network using NT LAN Manager (NTLM) for authentication, a method often associated with pass-the-hash attacks.
The flaws impact products manufactured by LenelS2, a provider of advanced physical security solutions (i.e. The experts focused on Carrier’s LenelS2 access control panels, manufactured by HID Mercury. CVE-2022-31486 Authenticated command injection <=1.291 (no patch) Base 8.8, ” reads the post published by Trellix.
Experts at firmware security firm Eclypsium have discovered that many peripheral device manufacturers have not implemented security checks to prevent the installation of firmware from an untrusted source. This means that these components have no way to validate that the firmware loaded by the device is authentic and should be trusted.
As a tradeoff for enjoying our digital lives, we’ve learned to live with password overload and even tolerate two-factor authentication. I had a chance to discuss this seminal transition with George Avetisov, co-founder and chief executive officer of HYPR , a Manhattan-based supplier of advanced authentication technologies.
Researchers at Applied Risk discovered serious flaws in some PLC gateways manufactured by industrial tech company ABB. ABB also published separate advisories for the missing authentication and XSS vulnerabilities. ” reads the security advisory published by ABB. The flaw has been rated as a severity rating of “high.”.
The expert focused the analysis on the Controller Area Network (CAN) bus implements by two commercially available avionics systems from aircraft manufacturers who specialize in light aircraft. Manufacturers of aircraft should review implementation of CAN bus networks to compensate for the physical attack vector.”
Security expert discovered multiple flaws in 4G routers manufactured by several companies, some of them could allow attackers to take over the devices. G Richter, a security researcher at Pen Test Partners discovered multiple vulnerabilities 4G routers manufactured by different vendors. high severity CVSS v3. 0 base score) .
Using blockchain to combat counterfeiting in manufacturing. Product authenticity plays a huge role in assuring consumer confidence for B2B and B2C businesses. Correspondingly, for manufacturers and retailers, safeguarding the consumer experience and ensuring safety and trust are key to protecting the brand.
Most of the victims are in the manufacturing, engineering and construction, and retail sectors. Recommendations provided in the report include installing updates promptly, using phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA), securing remote access software, making backups, and applying mitigations from the #StopRansomware Guide.
Czech cybersecurity startup Wultra has raised 3 million from Tensor Ventures, Elevator Ventures, and J&T Ventures to accelerate the development of its post-quantum authentication technology, safeguarding banks and fintech against the coming wave of quantum threats. Prague, Czech Republic, Jan.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 55,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content