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Month: February 2023

Samsung Launches Message Guard to Protect Users From Cyber-Threats

The feature provides a sandbox layer isolating some image files from the rest of the device

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  • February 21, 2023

Okta Networking

ACM.163 How to limit network access and thereby limit possible attacks on our Okta User Directory Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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  • February 20, 2023

Is OWASP at Risk of Irrelevance?

A growing group of OWASP members and board leaders are calling for the AppSec group to make big changes to stay apace with modern development.

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  • February 20, 2023

EU parliamentary committee says ‘no’ to EU-US data privacy framework

Progress on ratifying the Trans-Atlantic Data Policy Framework hit a snag, as a parliamentary committee rejected a draft decision to adopt the pact, saying it did not comply with the EU’s GDPR privacy regulations.

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  • February 20, 2023

Bug Deleting AWS Identity Provider from CloudFormation

Scenario: Deleting an IDP with a dynamic Secrets Manager reference Continue reading on Bugs That Bite »

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  • February 20, 2023

Federating AWS Authentication to Okta with SAML

ACM.160 A high level walkthrough of integrating Okta with AWS Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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  • February 20, 2023

GoDaddy Discloses Multi-Year Security Breach Causing Malware Installations and Source Code Theft

Web hosting services provider GoDaddy on Friday disclosed a multi-year security breach that enabled unknown threat actors to install malware and siphon source code related to some of its services. The company attributed the campaign to a “sophisticated and organized group targeting hosting services.” GoDaddy said in December 2022, it received an unspecified number of […]

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  • February 20, 2023

Twitter Limits SMS-Based 2-Factor Authentication to Blue Subscribers Only

Twitter has announced that it’s limiting the use of SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) to its Blue subscribers. “While historically a popular form of 2FA, unfortunately we have seen phone-number based 2FA be used – and abused – by bad actors,” the company said. “We will no longer allow accounts to enroll in the text message/SMS method […]

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  • February 20, 2023

Assessing Okta’s Protection of Customer’s AWS Credentials and User Directory

ACM.161 How does Okta protect our AWS credentials, configuration, system integration, and directory data? Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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