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Computer science researchers have developed a new way to identify security weaknesses that leave people vulnerable to account takeover attacks, where an attacker gains unauthorized access to online accounts. Dr Luca Arnaboldi from Birmingham's School of Computer Science worked with Professor David Aspinall from the University of Edinburgh, Dr Christina Kolb from the University of Twente, and Dr Sasa Radomirovic from the University of Surrey to define a way of cataloging security vulnerabilities and modeling account takeover attacks, by reducing them their constituent building blocks.
Attackers targeting vulnerable self-managed GitLab instances could use a specially crafted HTTP request to send a password reset email to an attacker-controlled, unverified email address. Users with 2FA enabled aren't vulnerable to account takeover, unless the attacker also had control of the 2FA authenticator, but a password reset could still be achieved.
Social engineer reveals effective tricks for real-world intrusionsIn this Help Net Security interview, Jayson E. Street, Chief Adversarial Officer at Secure Yeti, discusses intriguing aspects of social engineering and unconventional methods for gathering target information. Understanding zero-trust design philosophy and principlesIn this Help Net Security interview, Phil Vachon, Head of Infrastructure in the Office of the CTO at Bloomberg, discusses the varying definitions of zero trust among security professionals and companies, emphasizing its broad design philosophy.
A critical vulnerability in GitLab CE/EE can be easily exploited by attackers to reset GitLab user account passwords.Users who have two-factor authentication enabled on their account are safe from account takeover.
Two vulnerabilities impacting the POST SMTP Mailer WordPress plugin, an email delivery tool used by 300,000 websites, could help attackers take complete control of a site authentication. Based on statitics from wordpress.org, there are roughly 150,000 sites that run a vulnerable version of the plugin that is lower than 2.8.
Subdominator is a dependable and fast open-source command-line interface tool to identify subdomain takeovers. It boasts superior accuracy and reliability, offering improvements compared to other tools.
A design flaw in Google Workspace's domain-wide delegation feature, discovered by Hunters' Team Axon, can allow attackers to misuse existing delegations, enabling privilege escalation and unauthorized access to Workspace APIs without Super Admin privileges. Such exploitation could result in the theft of emails from Gmail, data exfiltration from Google Drive, or other unauthorized actions within Google Workspace APIs on all the identities in the target domain.
As many as 34 unique vulnerable Windows Driver Model (WDM) and Windows Driver Frameworks (WDF) drivers could be exploited by non-privileged threat actors to gain full control of the devices and...
A medium-severity flaw has been discovered in Synology's DiskStation Manager (DSM) that could be exploited to decipher an administrator's password and remotely hijack the account. "Under some rare...
The former chief executive of a company that was sold to Qualcomm for more than $150 million has pleaded guilty to one count of money laundering relating to a $1.5 million transaction involving proceeds from the deal. Sanjiv Taneja was CEO at startup Abreezio, for which Qualcomm agreed to pay roughly $180 million, $150 million of which was paid in cash in October 2015.