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Content tagged with Authentication posted in December 2016
Macau Resident Held For Hacking, Insider Trading Charges In US
Quick Hits  |  12/28/2016  | 
Iat Hong and two others allegedly breached computers of major US law firms and stole confidential exchange on M&A transactions.
Network Security: An Ounce Of Prevention Is Worth A Pound Of Reaction
Commentary  |  12/22/2016  | 
For humans ailments, prevention might begin with an allergist. In security, it's the network engineer.
Financial Data Worth Millions Unwittingly Exposed In Ameriprise Accounts
Quick Hits  |  12/19/2016  | 
Leak of bank account and financial planning details emanated from a financial advisor's unsecured Internet-connected backup drive at home.
Amit Yoran Leaves Dell RSA To Join Tenable As New CEO
News  |  12/15/2016  | 
Yoran says recent Dell acquisition of RSA parent company EMC did 'not really' impact his decision to leave.
8 Most Hackable Holiday Gifts, 2016 Edition
Slideshows  |  12/14/2016  | 
You better watch out! Otherwise, you may be giving the gift of malware or unauthorized access to networks and devices.
The Internet Of Things: When Bigger Is Not Better
Commentary  |  12/13/2016  | 
What happens when 10,000 companies add programmability and connectivity to their products, and we increase the Internet’s attack surface by a million times or more?
Pay Ransom Or Infect Others!
Quick Hits  |  12/12/2016  | 
Still under development, new ransomware will ask victims to free their files by paying 1 bitcoin or by infecting two others.
How Retailers Can Fight Holiday Season Hackers
Slideshows  |  12/8/2016  | 
Experts offer tips for locking down retailers’ point-of-sale systems for the busy holiday shopping season.
Researchers Find Backdoors, Bugs In Sony, White Box IP Cameras
News  |  12/7/2016  | 
New vulnerabilities discovered by SEC Consult and Cybereason highight increasing IoT threat to enterprises.
Biometric Technology Is Not A Cure-All For Password Woes
Commentary  |  12/7/2016  | 
No single authentication token is infallible. The only real solution is multifactor authentication.
Dark Web Vendor Gets 50 Months Jail For ID Theft
Quick Hits  |  12/2/2016  | 
Minnesota resident Aaron Glende aka IcyEagle caught selling stolen bank details on AlphaBay market.
DMARC Continues To Confound Users, Report Says
News  |  12/1/2016  | 
Almost three-quarters of those who deploy email authentication standard fail to get its full benefits, ValiMail says.


New Bluetooth Hack Affects Millions of Vehicles
Dark Reading Staff 11/16/2018
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-2018-17948
PUBLISHED: 2018-11-20
An open redirect vulnerability exists in the Access Manager Identity Provider prior to 4.4 SP3.
CVE-2018-1779
PUBLISHED: 2018-11-20
IBM API Connect 2018.1 through 2018.3.7 could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service due to not setting limits on JSON payload size. IBM X-Force ID: 148802.
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.