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A critical vulnerability impacting the Cisco BroadWorks Application Delivery Platform and Cisco BroadWorks Xtended Services Platform could allow remote attackers to forge credentials and bypass authentication. Cisco BroadWorks is a cloud communication services platform for businesses and consumers, while the two mentioned components are used for app management and integration.
VMware Aria Operations for Networks is vulnerable to a critical severity authentication bypass flaw that could allow remote attackers to bypass SSH authentication and access private endpoints. VMware Aria is a suite for managing and monitoring virtualized environments and hybrid clouds, enabling IT automation, log management, analytics generation, network visibility, security and capacity planning, and full-scope operations management.
In this Help Net Security interview, Florian Forster, CEO at Zitadel, discusses the challenges CISOs face in managing authentication across increasingly distributed and remote workforces, the negative consequences of ineffective authorization, and how the shift toward cloud transformation affects authentication strategies. Authentication devicesWhen companies want to start using secure authentication concepts like passwordless or even Smartcards it becomes an additional burden to deliver the authentication devices to their employees.
Cisco-owned multi-factor authentication provider Duo Security is investigating an ongoing outage that has been causing authentication failures and errors starting three hours ago. The outage also led to Core Authentication Service issues across multiple Duo servers, triggering Azure Auth authentication errors for Azure Conditional Access integrations in a systemwide outage.
Sophisticated hackers have accessed email accounts of organizations and government agencies via authentication tokens they forged by using an acquired Microsoft account consumer signing key, the company has revealed on Tuesday. "The threat actor Microsoft links to this incident is an adversary based in China that Microsoft calls Storm-0558. We assess this adversary is focused on espionage, such as gaining access to email systems for intelligence collection."
Many organizations agree in theory that passwordless authentication is the future, but getting there represents a significant change management challenge. One way to accomplish this is by communicating the benefits of passwordless authentication to stakeholders with use cases that illustrate how the friction they currently experience in their day-to-day workflows will be eliminated.
Computer scientists at the University of Waterloo have discovered a method of attack that can successfully bypass voice authentication security systems with up to a 99% success rate after only six tries. Voice authentication - which allows companies to verify the identity of their clients via a supposedly unique "Voiceprint" - has increasingly been used in remote banking, call centers and other security-critical scenarios.
An authentication bypass vulnerability in the Arcserve Unified Data Protection enterprise data protection solution can be exploited to compromise admin accounts and take over vulnerable instances, MDSec researchers Juan Manuel Fernández and Sean Doherty have found - and have released a PoC exploit for it."At this time, Arcserve is not aware of any active attempts to exploit this vulnerability," the company said on Tuesday, when it pushed out fixes for the flaw.
Amid an industry migration away from passwords, Okta has launched Okta Device Access, part of its suite of Workforce Identity Cloud products and an effort to unify passkey access across all devices under a single identity and access management platform. Designed to extend identity access management to the point of device login, the Okta Device Access service is also meant to reduce the likelihood that users, faced with the aggravation of having to wrangle repeatedly with logins for each device, will jettison security protocols.
In this Help Net Security video, Michael Crandell, CEO of Bitwarden, discusses the future of passwords and authentication. Although interest in passwordless technology, which aims to eliminate the need for passwords, is relatively low, 65% of consumers are receptive to using new technology that simplifies their lives.