When Security Measures Go Wrong

[ad_1] Jan 18, 2024The Hacker NewsAuthentication Security / Passwords In today’s digital landscape, traditional password-only authentication systems have proven to be vulnerable to a wide range of cyberattacks. To safeguard critical business resources, organizations are increasingly turning to multi-factor authentication (MFA) as a more robust security measure. MFA requires users to provide multiple authentication factors…

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TensorFlow CI/CD Flaw Exposed Supply Chain to Poisoning Attacks

[ad_1] Jan 18, 2024NewsroomSupply Chain Attacks / AI Security Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) misconfigurations discovered in the open-source TensorFlow machine learning framework could have been exploited to orchestrate supply chain attacks. The misconfigurations could be abused by an attacker to “conduct a supply chain compromise of TensorFlow releases on GitHub and PyPi by…

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PixieFail UEFI Flaws Expose Millions of Computers to RCE, DoS, and Data Theft

[ad_1] Jan 18, 2024NewsroomFirmware Security / Vulnerability Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the TCP/IP network protocol stack of an open-source reference implementation of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) specification used widely in modern computers. Collectively dubbed PixieFail by Quarkslab, the nine issues reside in the TianoCore EFI Development Kit II (EDK II)…

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Iranian Hackers Masquerade as Journalists to Spy on Israel-Hamas War Experts

[ad_1] Jan 18, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Threat Intelligence High-profile individuals working on Middle Eastern affairs at universities and research organizations in Belgium, France, Gaza, Israel, the U.K., and the U.S. have been targeted by an Iranian cyber espionage group called Mind Sandstorm since November 2023. The threat actor “used bespoke phishing lures in an attempt…

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PAX PoS Terminal Flaw Could Allow Attackers to Tamper with Transactions

[ad_1] Jan 17, 2024NewsroomFinancial Data / Vulnerability The point-of-sale (PoS) terminals from PAX Technology are impacted by a collection of high-severity vulnerabilities that can be weaponized by threat actors to execute arbitrary code. The STM Cyber R&D team, which reverse engineered the Android-based devices manufactured by the Chinese firm owing to their rapid deployment in…

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New iShutdown Method Exposes Hidden Spyware Like Pegasus on Your iPhone

[ad_1] Jan 17, 2024NewsroomSpyware / Forensic Analysis Cybersecurity researchers have identified a “lightweight method” called iShutdown for reliably identifying signs of spyware on Apple iOS devices, including notorious threats like NSO Group’s Pegasus, QuaDream’s Reign, and Intellexa’s Predator. Kaspersky, which analyzed a set of iPhones that were compromised with Pegasus, said the infections left traces…

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Webinar: The Art of Privilege Escalation

[ad_1] Jan 17, 2024The Hacker NewsCyber Threat / Live Webinar In the digital age, the battleground for security professionals is not only evolving, it’s expanding at an alarming rate. The upcoming webinar, “The Art of Privilege Escalation – How Hackers Become Admins,” offers an unmissable opportunity for IT security experts to stay ahead in this…

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