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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

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? Are members contributing content or only system administrators? Will you validate new members’ email addresses and/or phone numbers?

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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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Security for Big Data Designs: Examining best practices with security architect Eddie Garcia

CTOvision

Authentication is addressed for the perimeter security requirements. Active Directory and Kerberos are the authentication staples within the enterprise, allowing all users to be authenticated. Cloudera’s security model is based on four pillars of security: Perimeter, Access, Visibility and Data.

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

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/var/lib/gssproxy/rcache/: The gssproxy (Generic Security Services Proxy) is a service that provides a proxy interface to the Kerberos library, making it easier for applications to use Kerberos authentication. var/cache/man/zh_TW/cat8/ : used for system administration and maintenance commands.

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Recorded Future Provides Awareness Into Issue of Government Credentials On The Open Web

CTOvision

They are regularly used to hold and share small working documents by programmers/developers/systems administrators as well as academics and students. These sites are web applications designed to allow users to store and share plain text. In practice, paste sites are also used as a dumping ground for stolen credentials.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Registration - will you support Facebook Connect or similar authentication? Are regular users contributing content or only system administrators?