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minute read Share this article: Tony Lauro, director of security technology and strategy at Akamai, discusses hardware security dongles and using phones to act as surrogates for them. You have to hand it to the cyber-thieves: They have proven extremely adept at defeating security measures once thought reliable. Case in point: multifactor authentication (MFA). While two-factor authentication (2FA) using push text notifications has become the de-facto standard for login security, bad...

GitHub adds support for FIDO2 security keys for Git over SSH to fend off account hijacking and further its plan to stick a fork in the security bane of passwords.

How to Check a URL for High-Risk or Vulnerable Paths in Java Check if the input URL or relative path is a server administration path by using an API in Java. by Join the DZone community and get the full member experience.Join For Free Whether you rely on them for business or personal use, it’s safe to say that we interact with URLs on a daily basis. They are our gateway to provide and access information across the web, and due to their universal nature, they are constantly scrutinized by att...

Malware first observed in Italy can steal victims’ credentials and SMS messages as well as livestream device screens on demand.

Argyle is paying workers to help hack payroll providers, researchers suspect. Fintech startup Argyle, a financial-services platform aimed at gig workers, is working to replace credit scores assigned by bureaus like Equifax. But closer security analysis hints that Argyle could be just the latest incarnation of an ongoing data-collection campaign, paying people to give up their payroll login credentials on a massive scale, researchers said. Argyle is marketed as a way for the growing numbers of g...

Wi-Fi devices going back to 1997 are vulnerable to attackers who can steal your data if they're in range.

Paper ballots and source-code transparency are recommended to improve election security.

minute read Share this article: ‘Freevaccinecovax.org’ claimed to be that of a biotech company but instead was stealing info from visitors to use for nefarious purposes. Federal law enforcement in Maryland has shut down a fraudulent website targeting immigrant communities that claimed to be for a company developing a COVID-19 vaccine. Instead, the site was stealing information from people with the purpose of using it for future cybercriminal activity. The U.S. Attorney’s Offi...

minute read Share this article: On top of the privacy spill, Peloton is also recalling all treadmills after the equipment was linked to 70 injuries and the death of one child. Peloton has hit a pothole. Its API was leaking riders’ private data, it ignored a vulnerability disclosure from a penetration testing company, and it partially fixed the hole but didn’t get around to telling the researcher until he reached out to a cybersecurity journalist for some help. This is bad news...

minute read Share this article: Remote code execution, privilege escalation to root and lateral movement through a victim’s environment are all on offer for the unpatched or unaware. A veritable cornucopia of security vulnerabilities in the Exim mail server have been uncovered, some of which could be chained together for unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE), gaining root privileges and worm-style lateral movement, according to researchers. The Qualys Research Team has disc...