Identity, IAM & Zero Trust

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (433+ words) Passkeys are a fantastic technology. Since they are bound to the site they are created for, they cannot be phished by a hacker’s fake login screen. If a site suffers a data breach, passkeys are asymmetric and cannot be recovered…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (787+ words) Passkeys and MFAs were meant to make life hard for hackers, except they’ve learned a new trick. Image: ChatGPT Microsoft warns attackers are using passkey and MFA update requests to phish employees, hijack sessions, and access Microsoft 365 data. A security…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1263+ words) Meet TrustSink, a technique that turns a rogue external MFA provider into a persistent credential trap. See how it works, why password resets may not remove the risk, and how defenders can detect rogue providers. Varonis Threat Labs identified a…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (149+ words) Researchers at Microsoft are tracking a social engineering campaign that uses passkey-themed lures to trick users into granting persistent access to their accounts and online work environments. The attacker’s goal is to trick the victim into performing actions that will…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (262+ words) Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display By Eric Lopez, Director of IT Security Phishing attempts are increasingly using familiar names, services and notification formats to make malicious emails more difficult to recognize. Seton Hall’s IT Security team…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (519+ words) Microsoft warns that passkey-themed phishing is hijacking Microsoft 365 accounts, adding rogue MFA methods, and slowly stealing business cloud data. Microsoft is warning of an ongoing social engineering campaign that uses passkey enrollment as a lure to compromise corporate accounts and…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (424+ words) Explore the BridgeTower Media network — 35 publications across 4 industries. Gifts & Decorative Accessories Password troubles cause online shoppers to abandon purchases Security measures for online shoppers can often involve big frustrations for those who have difficulty remembering their passwords. At the same…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (432+ words) A text message received by an Ontario resident — claiming a loved one’s phone was damaged and asking them to reply to a new number — is a variation of a scam that has been around for many years. Did you receive…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (734+ words) Microsoft has disclosed details of two campaigns in which threat actors are abusing third-party email delivery infrastructure to blast financial fraud scam messages and using passkey-themed social engineering to breach cloud environments. Evidence indicates that the operators behind the campaign…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (387+ words) A SAML SSO vulnerability gave attackers access to 138 customer accounts, with phishing emails reaching hundreds of thousands of crypto users Email marketing platforms are the quiet infrastructure of the internet, the unglamorous pipes that move newsletters and alerts from companies…...