App-specific passwords are used in conjunction with two-factor authentication on your Google account. Most applications do not know how to handle two-factor, which is why app-specific passwords were created.
The most common types of attacks involved malware and phishing, but Fortinet pointed out that these types of incidents have significantly declined in North America — along with insider breaches — compared to the previous year.
Scroll to Text Fragment (STTF), a feature that can be used to directly browse to a specific text fragment on a webpage, can be exploited to leak sensitive user information, a security researcher has found.
The package manager has started alerting the maintainers of gems with more than 165 million downloads via the RubyGems command-line tool and website, recommending that they enable MFA on their accounts.
Security researchers have apparently discovered more than 1.6 million secrets leaked by websites, including more than 395,000 exposed by the one million most popular domains.
The Digital Operational Resilience Act would force non-EU companies with a significant presence in member states to create subsidiaries that can be regulated under their jurisdiction.
The US CISA has informed organizations that AutomationDirect has patched several high-severity vulnerabilities in some of its programmable logic controller (PLC) and human-machine interface (HMI) products.
The Department of Energy this week released its national Cyber-Informed Engineering Strategy that provides guidance for building resilient energy systems that can withstand cyberattacks.
A new phishing campaign has been targeting U.S. organizations in the military, security software, manufacturing supply chain, healthcare, and pharmaceutical sectors to steal Microsoft Office 365 and Outlook credentials.
Researchers say ransomware actors can exploit a functionality flaw in Microsoft Office 365 suite to encrypt files stored on SharePoint and OneDrive Online. The attack uses the versioning (or autosave) feature for the files edited on OneDrive or SharePoint as it creates cloud backups of older file versions. The affected files can be restored either […]