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Contingency Plans and Resilience Needed for Two-Factor Authentication Outages Social Media Accounts Alert Students About DUO Outage One week ago, several universities and colleges were faced with a systemwide outage of Duo, a popular authentication service provided by Cisco. Students trying to log into their accounts were met with performance issues that prevented them from…
Quantum Physics Approach to Revolutionize Wireless Security Computer engineers at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) have been exploring quantum physics to develop a more secure way of wireless device identification and device-to-device communication. The method used by UIC scientists is inspired by quantum physics and uses a unique and random digital fingerprint to develop…
Chinese Cyber Espionage Group UNC3886’s Stealthy Attack on Fortinet Firewalls A stealthy and sophisticated cyber-espionage attack on a defense industry organization in 2022 has been attributed to Chinese hacking group UNC3886, according to Mandiant CEO, Kevin Mandia. The attackers managed to gain administrator privileges in the Fortinet FortiGate firewalls and set up a virtual API…
Microsoft‘s May 2023 Patch Tuesday updates include a cautious patch for a zero-day vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild. Black Lotus ransomware gang is among the cybercriminals that have used the vulnerability (CVE-2023-24932: Secure Boot Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability) to execute their attacks. This vulnerability impacts the Secure Boot feature, which protects the…