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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.


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Kevin Kurzawa, Senior Information Security Auditor,  11/13/2018
Understanding Evil Twin AP Attacks and How to Prevent Them
Ryan Orsi, Director of Product Management for Wi-Fi at WatchGuard Technologies,  11/14/2018
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CVE-2018-19367
PUBLISHED: 2018-11-20
Portainer through 1.19.2 provides an API endpoint (/api/users/admin/check) to verify that the admin user is already created. This API endpoint will return 404 if admin was not created and 204 if it was already created. Attackers can set an admin password in the 404 case.
CVE-2018-19335
PUBLISHED: 2018-11-20
Google Monorail before 2018-06-07 has a Cross-Site Search (XS-Search) vulnerability because CSV downloads are affected by CSRF, and calculations of download times (for requests with a crafted groupby value) can be used to obtain sensitive information about the content of bug reports.
CVE-2018-19334
PUBLISHED: 2018-11-20
Google Monorail before 2018-05-04 has a Cross-Site Search (XS-Search) vulnerability because CSV downloads are affected by CSRF, and calculations of download times (for requests with an unsupported axis) can be used to obtain sensitive information about the content of bug reports.
CVE-2018-10099
PUBLISHED: 2018-11-20
Google Monorail before 2018-04-04 has a Cross-Site Search (XS-Search) vulnerability because CSV downloads are affected by CSRF, and calculations of download times (for requests with duplicated columns) can be used to obtain sensitive information about the content of bug reports.
CVE-2018-17906
PUBLISHED: 2018-11-19
Philips iSite and IntelliSpace PACS, iSite PACS, all versions, and IntelliSpace PACS, all versions. Default credentials and no authentication within third party software may allow an attacker to compromise a component of the system.