Tag: authentication
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How Authentication Reduces Fake Submissions in Online Classes
Tags: authenticationLearn how authentication in online classes prevents impersonation, plagiarism, and outsourcing of work, ensuring fairness and academic integrity. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/09/how-authentication-reduces-fake-submissions-in-online-classes/
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GitHub Introduces npm Security with Stronger Authentication and Trusted Publishing
Open source software powers much of today’s technology, enabling developers around the world to build and share tools, libraries, and applications. However, the same openness that drives innovation also presents serious security challenges. Attackers regularly target package registries like npm to compromise accounts and inject malicious code. In response, GitHub has announced significant updates to…
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GitHub Mandates 2FA and Short-Lived Tokens to Strengthen npm Supply Chain Security
GitHub on Monday announced that it will be changing its authentication and publishing options “in the near future” in response to a recent wave of supply chain attacks targeting the npm ecosystem, including the Shai-Hulud attack.This includes steps to address threats posed by token abuse and self-replicating malware by allowing local publishing with required two-factor…
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6 novel ways to use AI in cybersecurity
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, business, ceo, cloud, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, email, infrastructure, intelligence, malicious, malware, network, phishing, risk, service, tactics, technology, threat, tool, training2. Machine-learning generative adversarial networks: Michel Sahyoun, chief solutions architect with cybersecurity technology firm NopalCyber, recommends using generative adversarial networks (GANs) to create, as well as protect against, highly sophisticated previously unseen cyberattacks. “This technique enables cybersecurity systems to learn and adapt by training against a very large number of simulated threats,” he says.GANs allow…
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6 novel ways to use AI in cybersecurity
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, business, ceo, cloud, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, email, infrastructure, intelligence, malicious, malware, network, phishing, risk, service, tactics, technology, threat, tool, training2. Machine-learning generative adversarial networks: Michel Sahyoun, chief solutions architect with cybersecurity technology firm NopalCyber, recommends using generative adversarial networks (GANs) to create, as well as protect against, highly sophisticated previously unseen cyberattacks. “This technique enables cybersecurity systems to learn and adapt by training against a very large number of simulated threats,” he says.GANs allow…
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How Cybersecurity is Becoming the Backbone of Digital Marketing Agencies
Learn why cybersecurity is vital for digital marketing agencies. Explore threats, authentication, audits, and compliance to boost trust and growth. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/09/how-cybersecurity-is-becoming-the-backbone-of-digital-marketing-agencies/
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How Cybersecurity is Becoming the Backbone of Digital Marketing Agencies
Learn why cybersecurity is vital for digital marketing agencies. Explore threats, authentication, audits, and compliance to boost trust and growth. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/09/how-cybersecurity-is-becoming-the-backbone-of-digital-marketing-agencies/
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The Future of Multi-Factor Authentication in an AI-Driven Content Marketing Agency
Discover how multi-factor authentication shapes the future of AI-driven content marketing agencies with advanced security and frictionless protection. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/09/the-future-of-multi-factor-authentication-in-an-ai-driven-content-marketing-agency/
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Using Smartphone Cameras for Easy Eye Vein Verification
Discover how smartphone cameras can be used for easy eye vein verification. Learn about the software development, security, and future trends of this biometric authentication method. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/09/using-smartphone-cameras-for-easy-eye-vein-verification/
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Frictionless Security: What DevOps Teams Really Need from Identity Management
5 min readThe core challenge isn’t secrets; it’s access. Instead of treating access as a secrets problem, teams should treat it as an identity problem. This simple shift flips the script entirely. With ephemeral credentials tied to workload identity, authentication becomes invisible. Developers stop worrying about keys, security posture improves, and velocity accelerates. First seen…
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Nokia CBIS/NCS Manager API Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Bypass Authentication
On September 18, 2025, Orange Cert publicly disclosed a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Nokia’s CBIS (CloudBand Infrastructure Software) and NCS (Nokia Container Service) Manager API (CVE-2023-49564). With a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.6 (AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H), the vulnerability poses a severe risk to organizations relying on these management platforms to orchestrate and secure their containerized network…
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Microsoft schaltet gefährliches Phishing-Netzwerk ab
Über die Phishing-as-a-Service-Plattform RaccoonO365 sollen mehr als 5.000 Microsoft-Accounts in 94 Ländern kompromittiert worden sein.Die Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) von Microsoft hat die Phishing-as-a-Service-Plattform RaccoonO365 lahmgelegt. Wie das Unternehmen aus Redmond berichtet, wurden dabei 338 Webseiten beschlagnahmt, um die Infrastruktur zu zerstören.Das von Microsoft als Storm-2246 verfolgte kriminelle Netzwerk hinter der Plattform hat sich auf…
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Brute force attacks hitting SonicWall firewall configuration backups
Tags: attack, authentication, backup, breach, cloud, computer, computing, credentials, data, defense, encryption, firewall, Hardware, login, mfa, password, phishing, software, technology, threatWhat are brute force attacks?: Brute force attacks use trial and error to crack passwords, login credentials, and encryption keys. They’ve been around since the beginning of the computer age, yet are still effective. Why? In part because people still use easily guessable passwords like ‘1234’, or their company’s name, or default passwords left on…
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SQL Injection
SQL Injection (SQLi) remains one of the most persistent and dangerous web application vulnerabilities. Attackers who successfully exploit SQLi can read, modify, or delete sensitive data, bypass authentication, escalate privileges, and in some cases take full control of backend systems. This page explains SQL Injection in plain language, shows why it matters, covers types and…
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Warning: Brute force attacks hitting SonicWall firewall configuration backups
Tags: attack, authentication, backup, breach, cloud, computer, computing, credentials, data, defense, encryption, firewall, Hardware, login, mfa, password, phishing, software, technology, threatWhat are brute force attacks?: Brute force attacks use trial and error to crack passwords, login credentials, and encryption keys. They’ve been around since the beginning of the computer age, yet are still effective. Why? In part because people still use easily guessable passwords like ‘1234’, or their company’s name, or default passwords left on…
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When Every Second Counts: Rethinking Authentication for Modern Healthcare
In the emergency room at 2 AM, a cardiac patient arrives in distress. The attending physician rushes to the nearest workstation”, one that three other doctors have used in the past hour”, and needs immediate access to prescribe life-saving medication. But first, there’s the familiar friction: logging out the previous user, entering credentials, waiting for…
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Chaos-Mesh flaws put Kubernetes clusters at risk of full takeover
Tags: access, api, authentication, cloud, control, data-breach, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, injection, kubernetes, network, risk, service, tool, vulnerabilitychaosctl tool and port. Some cloud infrastructure providers that offer Chaos-Mesh implementations as part of their managed Kubernetes Services, such as Azure Chaos Studio, are also impacted. Chaos-Mesh was designed to orchestrate fault scenarios that could impact infrastructure and applications. The researchers observed that one core component of Chaos-Mesh, the Controller Manager, exposed a GraphQL…
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Warning: Hackers have inserted credential-stealing code into some npm libraries
Tags: api, attack, authentication, ciso, cloud, credentials, github, google, hacker, Hardware, incident response, malware, mfa, monitoring, open-source, phishing, sans, software, supply-chain, threatMore than 40 packages affected: One of the researchers who found and flagged the hack Monday was French developer François Best, and it was also described in blogs from StepSecurity, Socket, ReversingLabs and Ox Security. These blogs contain a full list of compromised packages and indicators of compromise.Researchers at Israel-based Ox Security said there was a…
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DigiCert Acquires Valimail to Add Email Authentication Service
DigiCert acquires Valimail to strengthen email authentication with DMARC and content protection, to fight phishing and AI-driven threats. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/09/digicert-acquires-valimail-to-add-email-authentication-service/
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DigiCert Acquires Valimail to Add Email Authentication Service
DigiCert acquires Valimail to strengthen email authentication with DMARC and content protection, to fight phishing and AI-driven threats. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/09/digicert-acquires-valimail-to-add-email-authentication-service/
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LG WebOS TV Vulnerability Enables Full Device Takeover by Bypassing Authentication
A security vulnerability has been discovered in LG WebOS TV systems that allows attackers to gain complete control over affected devices by bypassing authentication mechanisms. The vulnerability, disclosed during the TyphoonPWN 2025 LG Category competition where it won first place, affects LG WebOS 43UT8050 and potentially other versions of the smart TV platform. Vulnerability Mechanics…
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From prevention to rapid response: The new era of CISO strategy
Tags: access, attack, authentication, automation, awareness, breach, ciso, control, credentials, cybersecurity, data, finance, fintech, infrastructure, Intruder, malicious, monitoring, network, privacy, radius, resilience, service, strategy, threat, zero-trustBreaches will happen, so how do we deal with the fallout?CISOs are now spending less energy trying to keep every threat at bay. They know attackers will get in, but the question is, what’s next? The new mindset is about stopping intruders from moving around and escalating the damage.This shift means investing in sharper visibility,…
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How AI-powered ZTNA will protect the hybrid future
Tags: access, ai, authentication, automation, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, data, healthcare, identity, infrastructure, skills, strategy, tool, vpn, zero-trustThe multi-cloud access management reality: The complexity I’m witnessing goes beyond traditional VPN sprawl challenges. Take a healthcare enterprise I worked with: patient management on AWS, legacy billing on-premises, analytics on Azure and disaster recovery in a third cloud. Each environment has different access controls, identity providers and security policies. A nurse accessing patient data…
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How AI-powered ZTNA will protect the hybrid future
Tags: access, ai, authentication, automation, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, data, healthcare, identity, infrastructure, skills, strategy, tool, vpn, zero-trustThe multi-cloud access management reality: The complexity I’m witnessing goes beyond traditional VPN sprawl challenges. Take a healthcare enterprise I worked with: patient management on AWS, legacy billing on-premises, analytics on Azure and disaster recovery in a third cloud. Each environment has different access controls, identity providers and security policies. A nurse accessing patient data…
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WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Let Attackers Bypass Authentication via Social Login
A critical vulnerability in the Case Theme User plugin for WordPress allows unauthenticated attackers to hijack any account on vulnerable sites, including administrative accounts, by exploiting the social login feature. Site owners are urged to update immediately. On May 31, 2025, Wordfence Intelligence received a report of an Authentication Bypass via Social Login vulnerability in…
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Passwordless Authentication in Healthcare: Protecting Patient Data
Discover how passwordless authentication protects patient data, boosts compliance, and streamlines workflows in modern healthcare systems. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/09/passwordless-authentication-in-healthcare-protecting-patient-data/
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New ransomware Yurei adopts open-source tools for double-extortion campaigns
Tags: access, attack, authentication, backup, breach, ciso, cloud, control, data, edr, extortion, flaw, intelligence, Internet, mfa, network, open-source, phishing, powershell, ransomware, resilience, risk, service, switch, threat, tool, windowsBigger risks beyond downtime: The double-extortion ransomware appears to be an early version, as it has loopholes. Ransomware often targets and deletes shadow copies to block victims from using Windows’ built-in recovery options. But Yurei did not delete the shadow copies, which, if enabled, can allow the victim to restore their files to a previous…
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Burger King Uses DMCA to Remove Blog Exposing Drive-Thru System Security Flaws
Burger King has invoked the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to force the removal of a security researcher’s blog post that disclosed serious vulnerabilities in its new drive-thru “Assistant” system. Ethical hacker BobDaHacker published a report showing how attackers could bypass authentication, listen in on customer orders, and access employee records before a takedown notice took…