Access Management

Application Security

Issued by: Security Affairs

Okta warns of credential stuffing attacks targeting its Customer Identity Cloud (CIC) feature since April. A credential stuffing attack is a type of cyber attack where hackers use large sets of username and password combinations, typically obtained from previous data breaches, phishing campaigns, or info-stealer infections, to gain unauthorized access to user accounts on various…

Cloud Security

Issued by: CSO Online

The latest security announcements from Amazon aim to address a wide range of security issues for businesses, including an all-in-one hand-scanning biometric system and new capabilities for its Detective security visualization tool and GuardDuty continuous monitoring solution. Amazon One Enterprise is the most novel of the company’s announcements, which were made this week at its…

Network Security

Issued by: The Hacker News

Just recently, an attack believed to be perpetrated by the Chinese hacker group Storm-0558 targeted several government agencies. They used fake digital authentication tokens to access webmail accounts running on Microsoft’s Outlook service. In this incident, the attackers stole a signing key from Microsoft, enabling them to issue functional access tokens for Outlook Web Access…

Software Security

Issued by: Help Net Security

Zero trust is a concept that’s easy to grasp but incredibly difficult to implement. It touches almost every system, component, application, and resource within an enterprise, and requires a strategic framework and specific tools and technologies to achieve best practice results. As organizations move Microsoft environments towards zero trust, it’s vital to ensure that all…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Take a moment to consider how frequently you authenticate your identity online: checking your email, logging in to your bank account, accessing cloud-based productivity tools, booking a flight, paying your taxes. We confirm our identities so many times every day that things like providing personally identifiable information and confirming a login attempt through our smartphones…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Help Net Security

One Identity released a global survey that reveals attitudes of IT and security teams regarding their responses to COVID-19-driven work environment changes. The results shed insight into IT best practices that have emerged in recent months, and how organizations rushed to adopt them to maintain a secure and efficient virtual workplace. Cloud computing has been…

Network Security

Issued by: Help Net Security

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made available three new S3 (Simple Storage Service) security and access control features: Object Ownership Bucket Owner Condition Copy API via Access Points Object Ownership Object Ownership is a permission that can be set when creating a new object within an S3 bucket, to enforce the transfer of new object…