Tag: access
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Continuous Identity Assurance Is Now Security Infrastructure
From Remote Hiring to Access and Support, Trust Must Be Verified – Not Assumed Attackers no longer break in – they simply impersonate an employee or contractor to gain access. Discover how continuous identity assurance across hiring, third-party access and call centers reduces human-layer risk, and how IDProof+ enables fast, trusted verification across critical workflows.…
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Continuous Identity Assurance Is Now Security Infrastructure
From Remote Hiring to Access and Support, Trust Must Be Verified – Not Assumed Attackers no longer break in – they simply impersonate an employee or contractor to gain access. Discover how continuous identity assurance across hiring, third-party access and call centers reduces human-layer risk, and how IDProof+ enables fast, trusted verification across critical workflows.…
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Microsoft handed over BitLocker keys to law enforcement, raising enterprise data control concerns
Tags: access, authentication, backup, breach, business, china, cloud, control, corporate, credentials, data, endpoint, governance, government, group, india, infrastructure, law, mfa, microsoft, risk, service, technologyWhere most enterprises go wrong: Enterprises using BitLocker should treat the recovery keys as highly sensitive, and avoid default cloud backup unless there is a clear business requirement and the associated risks are well understood and mitigated.The safest configuration is to redirect those keys to on-premises Active Directory or a controlled enterprise key vault. Even…
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Microsoft handed over BitLocker keys to law enforcement, raising enterprise data control concerns
Tags: access, authentication, backup, breach, business, china, cloud, control, corporate, credentials, data, endpoint, governance, government, group, india, infrastructure, law, mfa, microsoft, risk, service, technologyWhere most enterprises go wrong: Enterprises using BitLocker should treat the recovery keys as highly sensitive, and avoid default cloud backup unless there is a clear business requirement and the associated risks are well understood and mitigated.The safest configuration is to redirect those keys to on-premises Active Directory or a controlled enterprise key vault. Even…
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Instagram Investigates Reported Vulnerability Allowing Access to Private Content
A server-side vulnerability in Instagram that allegedly allowed completely unauthenticated access to private account posts. This raises concerns about Meta’s vulnerability disclosure handling and the effectiveness of compensatory controls protecting user privacy. Technical Overview According to the disclosure, the vulnerability existed in Instagram’s mobile web interface and required no authentication or follower relationship to exploit.…
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SyncFuture Campaign Abuses Enterprise Security Tools to Deploy Malware
A sophisticated, multi-stage espionage campaign targeting Indian residents through phishing emails impersonating the Income Tax Department. The attack chain, tracked as the >>SyncFuture Espionage Campaign,<< weaponizes legitimate enterprise security software as its final payload, demonstrating how threat actors repurpose trusted commercial tools to establish persistent, undetectable access to victim systems."‹ The campaign begins with targeted…
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SyncFuture Campaign Abuses Enterprise Security Tools to Deploy Malware
A sophisticated, multi-stage espionage campaign targeting Indian residents through phishing emails impersonating the Income Tax Department. The attack chain, tracked as the >>SyncFuture Espionage Campaign,<< weaponizes legitimate enterprise security software as its final payload, demonstrating how threat actors repurpose trusted commercial tools to establish persistent, undetectable access to victim systems."‹ The campaign begins with targeted…
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New Phishing Attack Exploits Vercel to Host and Deliver Remote Access Malware
A new phishing campaign abusing the Vercel hosting platform has been active since at least November 2025 and is becoming increasingly sophisticated. The core trick is “inherited trust.” Attackers send short phishing emails with financial or business themes such as unpaid invoices, payment statements, or document reviews. The real hook is not the text, but…
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Can Passkeys Be Exploited for Account Access?
Explore if passkeys can be exploited. Learn about potential vulnerabilities in passwordless authentication, fido2 implementation risks, and how to stay secure. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/01/can-passkeys-be-exploited-for-account-access/
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Top 3 factors for selecting an identity access management tool
Identity and access management (IAM) ensures that people and entities with digital identities have the right level of access to your enterprise resources. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/spons/top-3-factors-for-selecting-an-identity-access-management-tool/809937/
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UK digital ID goes in-house, government swears it isn’t an ID card
Minister dodges cost questions while promising smartphone-free access and ‘robust’ verification First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/01/26/digital_id_costs/
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CISO’s predictions for 2026
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, automation, breach, business, ciso, cloud, control, credentials, cryptography, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, endpoint, extortion, finance, governance, government, healthcare, identity, infrastructure, malicious, mobile, mssp, network, password, penetration-testing, ransomware, risk, router, saas, soc, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability, warfareAI agents to reshape the threat landscape: But those same AI technologies are also changing the threat landscape. Toal points to a recent Anthropic report that documented the first large-scale AI-enabled cyberattack as an early warning sign. “I guarantee attackers will be more focused on using AI agents for what they want than a lot…
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What is User Managed Access?
Deep dive into User Managed Access (UMA). Learn how UMA 2.0 works with OAuth2 and OIDC to provide user-centric privacy and resource sharing in Enterprise SSO. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/01/what-is-user-managed-access/
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What is User Managed Access?
Deep dive into User Managed Access (UMA). Learn how UMA 2.0 works with OAuth2 and OIDC to provide user-centric privacy and resource sharing in Enterprise SSO. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/01/what-is-user-managed-access/
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What is User Managed Access?
Deep dive into User Managed Access (UMA). Learn how UMA 2.0 works with OAuth2 and OIDC to provide user-centric privacy and resource sharing in Enterprise SSO. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/01/what-is-user-managed-access/
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Microsoft Shared BitLocker Recovery Keys with the FBI to Unlock Encrypted Laptop Data
Microsoft has confirmed that it provided BitLocker encryption recovery keys to the FBI following a valid search warrant, marking the first publicly known case of the technology giant sharing encryption keys with law enforcement. The disclosure occurred after federal investigators in Guam requested access to three encrypted laptops believed to contain evidence of fraud in…
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Researchers Uncover Multi-Stage AiTM Attack Using SharePoint to Bypass Security Controls
Microsoft Defender researchers have exposed a sophisticated adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing campaign targeting energy sector organizations, leveraging SharePoint file-sharing services to bypass traditional email security controls and compromise multiple user accounts. SharePoint Abuse for Initial Access The attack began with a phishing email sent from a compromised trusted vendor’s email address, embedding SharePoint URLs that mimicked…
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Attackers Leveraging telnetd Exploit for Root Privileges After PoC Goes Public
The threat actors have begun actively exploiting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in GNU InetUtils telnetd immediately after proof-of-concept code became publicly available. The flaw allows remote attackers to gain root access without authentication, triggering widespread exploitation attempts across internet-exposed systems. The security flaw affects GNU InetUtils telnetd versions 1.9.3 through 2.7, with the vulnerable…
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Who Approved This Agent? Rethinking Access, Accountability, and Risk in the Age of AI Agents
AI agents are accelerating how work gets done. They schedule meetings, access data, trigger workflows, write code, and take action in real time, pushing productivity beyond human speed across the enterprise.Then comes the moment every security team eventually hits:“Wait… who approved this?”Unlike users or applications, AI agents are often deployed quickly, shared broadly, First seen…
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5 Risiken unzureichender Identitätsprüfung in digitalen Geschäftsprozessen
Digitale Geschäftsmodelle leben von Vertrauen. Ob Kundenportale, Partnerplattformen oder interne Self”‘Service”‘Systeme überall entscheidet die Identität darüber, wer Zugriff erhält und welche Aktionen möglich sind. Genau hier entstehen 2026 wachsende Risiken für Unternehmen. Für IT”‘Entscheider ist das kein reines Technikthema mehr. Mangelhafte Identitäts- und Vertrauensprüfungen wirken sich direkt auf Sicherheit, Compliance und wirtschaftliche Stabilität aus…. First…
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11-Year-Old critical telnetd flaw found in GNU InetUtils (CVE-2026-24061)
Critical telnetd flaw CVE-2026-24061 (CVSS 9.8) affects all GNU InetUtils versions 1.9.32.7 and went unnoticed for nearly 11 years. A critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-24061 (CVSS score of 9.8), in the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd) impacts all versions from 1.9.3 to 2.7. The vulnerability can be exploited to gain root access on affected systems.…
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Fortinet confirms new zero-day attacks against customer devices
cloud-init@mail.io and cloud-noc@mail.io. Other admin accounts are created with the names: audit, backup, itadmin, secadmin, and support. Mitigation: If these or other IOCs such as IP addresses are identified in configurations or the device logs, the system and its configuration should be considered compromised. Fortinet recommends updating the device to the latest available software release,…
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NDSS 2025 WAVEN: WebAssembly Memory Virtualization For Enclaves
Session 10A: Confidential Computing 2 Authors, Creators & Presenters: Weili Wang (Southern University of Science and Technology), Honghan Ji (ByteDance Inc.), Peixuan He (ByteDance Inc.), Yao Zhang (ByteDance Inc.), Ye Wu (ByteDance Inc.), Yinqian Zhang (Southern University of Science and Technology) PAPER WAVEN: WebAssembly Memory Virtualization for Enclaves The advancement of trusted execution environments (TEEs)…
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ISMG Editors: How Deepfakes Are Breaking Digital Trust
Also: How Non-Human Identities Redefine Security; the Delinea-StrongDM Deal. In this week’s panel, four editors discussed how deepfakes are reshaping digital Know Your Customer practices, what the rise of non-human identities means for CISOs and what Delinea’s acquisition of StrongDM tells us about where the privileged access market is heading. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…