Cyber Security with a flare
With two-factor authentication (2FA), users must prove their identity through two different means before being granted access. What is two-factor authentication? Two-factor authentication, abbreviated as 2FA, is an authentication process…
Attackers can poison a DNS cache by tricking DNS resolvers into caching false information, resulting in the resolver sending the wrong IP address to clients, and users attempting to navigate…
Identity and access management (IAM) solutions protect company data even when employees do not enter the office. What are the security challenges of a remote workforce? In an on-premise working…
Bankman-Fried, convicted on seven charges, faces a maximum sentence of 110 years. FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted of defrauding customers by a federal jury today. He was convicted on…
Okta is warning nearly 5,000 current and former employees that their personal information was exposed after a third-party vendor was breached. Okta is a San Fransisco-based cloud identity and access…
A low and slow attack is a DDoS attack that aims to stop a web service using extremely slow HTTP or TCP traffic. What is a low and slow attack?…
Simple but effective “cheat sheet” on internet/networking protocols, simple examples of how they work, and use case scenarios for how a protocol would typically be used.
Memcached can speed up websites, but a Memcached server can also be exploited to perform a DDoS attack. What is a memcached DDoS attack? A memcached distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack…
1Password, a popular password management platform used by over 100,000 businesses, suffered a security incident after hackers gained access to its Okta ID management tenant. “We detected suspicious activity on…
Okta says attackers accessed files containing cookies and session tokens uploaded by customers to its support management system after breaching it using stolen credentials. “The threat actor was able to…