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Content tagged with Authentication posted in November 2014
The Week When Attackers Started Winning The War On Trust
Commentary  |  11/21/2014  | 
The misuse of keys and certificates is not exotic or hypothetical. It’s a real threat that could undermine most, if not all, critical security controls, as recent headlines strongly show.
New Citadel Attack Targets Password Managers
News  |  11/20/2014  | 
IBM researchers have found signs that the prolific data steal Trojan is now being used to attack widely used password managers.
Killing Passwords: Don’t Get A-Twitter Over ‘Digits’
Commentary  |  11/19/2014  | 
Twitter’s new service that eliminates passwords for authentication actually makes your mobile device less secure.
Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch Amid Targeted Attacks
News  |  11/18/2014  | 
Windows Kerberos authentication bug "critical."
Is Security Awareness Training Really Worth It?
News  |  11/18/2014  | 
Experts weigh in on the value of end-user security training, and how to make education more effective.
Stop Trusting Signed Malware: 3 Steps
Commentary  |  11/7/2014  | 
Cybercriminals who manipulate valid signatures and certificates to get malware into an organization is a more common tactic than you think.


Election Websites, Back-End Systems Most at Risk of Cyberattack in Midterms
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark Reading,  8/14/2018
Intel Reveals New Spectre-Like Vulnerability
Curtis Franklin Jr., Senior Editor at Dark Reading,  8/15/2018
Australian Teen Hacked Apple Network
Dark Reading Staff 8/17/2018
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CVE-2011-2765
PUBLISHED: 2018-08-20
pyro before 3.15 unsafely handles pid files in temporary directory locations and opening the pid file as root. An attacker can use this flaw to overwrite arbitrary files via symlinks.
CVE-2018-15594
PUBLISHED: 2018-08-20
arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c in the Linux kernel before 4.18.1 mishandles certain indirect calls, which makes it easier for attackers to conduct Spectre-v2 attacks against paravirtual guests.
CVE-2018-15572
PUBLISHED: 2018-08-20
The spectre_v2_select_mitigation function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.18.1 does not always fill RSB upon a context switch, which makes it easier for attackers to conduct userspace-userspace spectreRSB attacks.
CVE-2018-15573
PUBLISHED: 2018-08-20
** DISPUTED ** An issue was discovered in Reprise License Manager (RLM) through 12.2BL2. Attackers can use the web interface to read and write data to any file on disk (as long as rlm.exe has access to it) via /goform/edit_lf_process with file content in the lfdata parameter and a pathname in the lf...
CVE-2018-15574
PUBLISHED: 2018-08-20
** DISPUTED ** An issue was discovered in the license editor in Reprise License Manager (RLM) through 12.2BL2. It is a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the /goform/edit_lf_get_data lf parameter via GET or POST. NOTE: the vendor has stated "We do not consider this a vulnerability."