TLS Archives - Cyber Security Minute

Google leaking 2FA secrets – researchers advise against new “account sync” feature for now

Issued by: Naked Security

The Google Authenticator 2FA app has featured strongly in cybersecurity news stories lately, with Google adding a feature to let you backup your 2FA data into the cloud and then restore it onto other devices. To explain, a 2FA (two-factor authentication) app is one of those programs that you run on your mobile phone or…

Vulnerabilities

Anxiously Awaited OpenSSL Vulnerability’s Severity Downgraded From Critical to High

Issued by: Security Week

The OpenSSL Project revealed last week that an update for OpenSSL 3.0 would address a critical vulnerability. That flaw is tracked as CVE-2022-3602 and it has been described as a buffer overrun that can be triggered in X.509 certificate verification. Exploitation of the flaw could lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) condition caused by a crash,…

Software Security

Many Prometheus Endpoints Expose Sensitive Data

Issued by: Security Week

Designed to harvest real-time metrics from various endpoints, Prometheus enables organizations to keep a close eye on systems’ state, network usage, and the like. Close to 800 cloud-native platforms, including Slack and Uber, leverage the solution. In January 2021, Prometheus added support for Transport Layer Security (TLS) and basic authentication, to prevent access to the…

Network Security

Breaking TLS: Good or bad for security?

Issued by: Help Net Security

As the use of TLS by malware and phishing increases, some security practitioners are seeking solutions to break TLS so they can monitor all traffic in and out of their network. Breaking TLS is typically accomplished by loading an inspection CA certificate that dynamically generates certificates by your TLS inspection device. The public key from…