Security News
AWS fixed three authentication bugs present in one line of code in its IAM Authenticator for Kubernetes, used by the cloud giant's popular managed Kubernetes service Amazon EKS, that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges within a Kubernetes cluster. Amazon updated all EKS clusters worldwide as of June 28, and the new version of the AWS IAM Authenticator for Kubernetes fixes the flaw.
A report released Tuesday by the Cyber Readiness Institute looks at the slow state of MFA adoption among SMBs. CRI surveyed 1,403 small business owners across the U.S., the U.K., New Zealand, Japan, India, Germany, Canada and Australia from May 2 to May 15. Among the respondents, 55% admitted that they're not very aware of MFA and its security benefits, while 54% said they haven't adopted MFA for their business.
In this video for Help Net Security, Christofer Hoff, Chief Secure Technology Officer at LastPass, talks about the benefits of passwordless authentication. To enable all the various components to work together across devices, operating systems, browsers and applications.
Cisco on Wednesday rolled out fixes to address a critical security flaw affecting Email Security Appliance and Secure Email and Web Manager that could be exploited by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to sidestep authentication.Assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2022-20798, the bypass vulnerability is rated 9.8 out of a maximum of 10 on the CVSS scoring system and stems from improper authentication checks when an affected device uses Lightweight Directory Access Protocol for external authentication.
Cisco notified customers this week to patch a critical vulnerability that could allow attackers to bypass authentication and login into the web management interface of Cisco email gateway appliances with non-default configurations. The security flaw was found in the external authentication functionality of virtual and hardware Cisco Email Security Appliance and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager appliances.
Single factor authentication has been the standard for many years on Internet-facing services, but it clearly lacks security. While 2FA drastically increases the security of Internet services, it can still be bypassed by some methods.
At WWDC 2022, Apple has announced and previewed iOS 16 and iPad OS 16, macOS 13, watchOS 9, their new M2 chips, new MacBook Air and Pro, as well as new tools, technologies, and APIs for developers focusing on Apple's platforms. Apple extends passwordless authentication with passkeys.
Microsoft sets multi-factor authentication as default for all Azure AD customers. In a new blog post, the company revealed that it's adding multi-factor authentication as the default security setting for existing Azure customers who haven't changed that setting on their own.
A new possession-factor API now aims to do precisely that, replacing knowledge-based credentials, by using the SIM card for possession factor device binding and user authentication, thus reducing the possibility of phishing. It's inside everyone's mobile phone, and is built on cryptographic security when connecting to mobile network authentication.
Two of the big-news vulnerabilities in this month's Patch Tuesday updates from Microsoft were CVE-2022-26923 and CVE-2022-26931, which affected the safety of authentication in Windows. Ironically, the CVE-2022-26923 and CVE-2022-26931 bugs only seem to apply if you're using digital certificates for added authentication security.