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CVE-2022-40684: Critical Authentication Bypass in FortiOS and FortiProxy

Tenable

Fortinet has patched a critical authentication bypass in its FortiOS and FortiProxy products that could lead to administrator access. CVE-2022-40684 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability that received a CVSSv3 score of 9.6. As the guide notes, these steps are part of their system administrator best practices.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower CTO

Can you provide specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, and what the system will do for them? What’s the state of those systems? Registration Do you plan to support Google Sign-In, Facebook Connect, or similar 3rd-party authentication? If so, will you also have your own account system?

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Kinsing Malware Hides Itself as a Manual Page and Targets Cloud Servers

Tenable

Known for leveraging various vulnerabilities to gain unauthorized access, the threat actors behind the Kinsing malware typically deploy backdoors and cryptocurrency miners (cryptominers) on compromised systems. After infection, Kinsing uses system resources for cryptomining, which leads to higher costs and slower server performance.

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What is Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan)?

Kaseya

This tool is particularly significant in environments where system administrators need to juggle several remote desktop sessions, making it an invaluable asset in the IT toolkit. Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) is a software designed to help system administrators efficiently manage multiple remote desktop connections.

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Biometric Data and Its Use for Person Authentication and Identification

Altexsoft

A password is only one of the standard security methods, a unique combination of characters you create and use as a key to authenticate yourself with. With the advances of biometric technologies, a new concept of authentication with “what you are” emerged, presenting a more secure and convenient way to validate a person.

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Authentication and Authorization, Post-Auth0: Styra* and Extending Identity to All Layers of the Cloud-Based Application Stack

Battery Ventures

billion acquisition of identity and authentication startup Auth0 by Okta put a spotlight on this increasingly important sector in enterprise software, particularly as more workloads move to the cloud. The recent, $6.5 Authorization is present in almost every user or service interaction.

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CVE-2021-30116: Multiple Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in Kaseya VSA Exploited to Distribute REvil Ransomware

Tenable

Zero-day vulnerabilities in popular remote monitoring and management software targeted by threat actors to distribute ransomware to reportedly over one million systems. Huntress Labs, for example, believes the attackers were able to gain access to VSA servers through the use of the authentication bypass flaw. “[.] Background.