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Content tagged with Authentication posted in August 2014
UK Reconsidering Biometrics
Quick Hits  |  8/12/2014  | 
Parliament is looking for answers about biometrics' privacy, security, future uses, and whether or not legislation is ready for what comes next.
6 Biometric Factors That Are Working Today
Slideshows  |  8/12/2014  | 
From fingerprints to wearable ECG monitors, there are real options in the market that may relegate the despised password to the dustbin of history.
Biggest Cache of Stolen Creds Ever Includes 1.2 Billion Unique Logins
Quick Hits  |  8/5/2014  | 
A Russian crime ring has swiped more than a billion unique username-password combinations, plus a half-million email addresses.
'Backoff' Malware: Time To Step Up Remote Access Security
Commentary  |  8/1/2014  | 
DHS issues advisory about remote desktop access tools associated with recent point-of-sale breaches.


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I Smell a RAT! New Cybersecurity Threats for the Crypto Industry
David Trepp, Partner, IT Assurance with accounting and advisory firm BPM LLP,  7/9/2021
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Attacks on Kaseya Servers Led to Ransomware in Less Than 2 Hours
Robert Lemos, Contributing Writer,  7/7/2021
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It's in the Game (but It Shouldn't Be)
Tal Memran, Cybersecurity Expert, CYE,  7/9/2021
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CVE-2021-40526
PUBLISHED: 2021-10-25
Incorrect calculation of buffer size vulnerability in Peleton TTR01 up to and including PTV55G allows a remote attacker to trigger a Denial of Service attack through the GymKit daemon process by exploiting a heap overflow in the network server handling the Apple GymKit communication. This can lead t...
CVE-2021-40527
PUBLISHED: 2021-10-25
Exposure of senstive information to an unauthorised actor in the "com.onepeloton.erlich" mobile application up to and including version 1.7.22 allows a remote attacker to access developer files stored in an AWS S3 bucket, by reading credentials stored in plain text within the mobile applic...
CVE-2021-40371
PUBLISHED: 2021-10-25
Gridpro Request Management for Windows Azure Pack before 2.0.7912 allows Directory Traversal for remote code execution, as demonstrated by ..\\ in a scriptName JSON value to ServiceManagerTenant/GetVisibilityMap.
CVE-2021-21703
PUBLISHED: 2021-10-25
In PHP versions 7.3.x up to and including 7.3.31, 7.4.x below 7.4.25 and 8.0.x below 8.0.12, when running PHP FPM SAPI with main FPM daemon process running as root and child worker processes running as lower-privileged users, it is possible for the child processes to access memory shared with the ma...
CVE-2021-42258
PUBLISHED: 2021-10-22
BQE BillQuick Web Suite 2018 through 2021 before 22.0.9.1 allows SQL injection for unauthenticated remote code execution, as exploited in the wild in October 2021 for ransomware installation. SQL injection can, for example, use the txtID (aka username) parameter. Successful exploitation can include ...