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Public Cloud Outages; A New Normal

The Incident Many Avenger fans would have felt frustrated when they were not able to view the latest Hawkeye series 4th episode when Disney+ was down due to an AWS outage. The outage also affected the competitor of Disney+ thats Netflix. Condesk, Tinder, Roku and many other services depended on AWS backbone were out last […]

Ajit Hatti December 9, 2021 Uncategorized

Securing Atlassian & Jenkins Deployment

Atlassian & Jenkins Atlassian is a globally popular provider of software development and collaboration tools. Jenkins, an open source automation server has more than 200,000 deployments. Both are being actively attacked due to recently disclosed vulnerabilities CVE-2021-26084 & CVE-2021-39124 in Atlassian products, as they are used in conjunction at many organisations. These security issues pose […]

Bhushan Hinduja November 19, 2021 Uncategorized

Your 1st Step to #GoPasswordless

Everyone understands and acknowledges that passwords are evil and are the biggest risk for enterprises. We have also seen that augmenting passwords with different factors not only makes the authentication process complex and costly but also fails to provide any effective security. Clearly, enterprise must choose to #GoPasswordless. In this blog, we discuss how. Securing […]

Ajit Hatti October 4, 2021 Enterprise Security

Fortinet leaked credentials to fuel more Breaches

Overview In our previous research blog Passwords & MFA Melting VPNS we had explained how vulnerabilities in Fortinet VPN are being exploited to harvest user credentials and bypass MFA implementations. The latest update from The Hacker News – 500K FortiGate VPN user credentials are available for free. Many instances of Fortinet VPN whose credentials are […]

Ajit Hatti September 14, 2021 Credential Stealing

GitHub says #GoPasswordless

All the recent high profile breaches we have seen, have one common root cause – Account takeovers with compromised credentials. Solarwinds incidents is a biggest examples of how simple account takeovers lead to distribution of malicious updates, which then got amplified through the supply chain and affect the entire world. GitHub being the world’s code-repository […]

Ajit Hatti August 25, 2021 Passwordless

Welcome Jeremiah Grossman

PureID is glad and excited to announce the appointment of Jeremiah Grossman, the world-renowned web security expert, to its advisory board. The PureID Advisory Board Jeremiah joins the board which also has Lamont Orange (CISO, Netskope) & James Robinson (Deputy CISO, Netskope) who have been advisors and mentors of PureID since its inception. Charles Nasser, […]

Ajit Hatti July 15, 2021 Advisory Board

Kaseya Supply Chain Attack & Passwords

The world was recovering from the jolt of Solarwinds, and we have this… face off with another supply chain attack shaking the world. This time it is Kaseya. About Kaseya Kaseya provides unified IT management softwares used by IT teams and Managed service providers (MSPs). VSA is their popular remote monitoring and endpoint management product […]

Ajit Hatti July 14, 2021 Credential Stealing

Android FluBot Malware – spreading rapidly across Europe, might target the US!

FluBot is a banking malware that is specifically attacking Android phones and stealing bank details and passwords from your device. Like Covid-19, this malware has spread across a wide range of English speaking countries rapidly causing some irreparable damage. FluBot uses “smishing” – phishing using SMS and text messages. These attacks have seen a huge […]

Ramya Erramilli May 4, 2021 Credential Stealing, Malware

Passwords & MFA Melting VPNs

The VPN Meltdown Throughout the March & April month, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agent (CISA) has reported numerous incidents where old vulnerabilities in popular VPNs were exploited by organized (or state sponsored) hackers, around the world. Large numbers of malware families & malicious actors across the globe […]

Shivani Thopte April 27, 2021 Uncategorized

3 Ways, Passwords are Failing the Enterprises

Online world majorly relies on passwords for access control and content security. Enterprises and individuals alike use passwords to keep sensitive information out of the wrong hands. However, enterprises are an extremely high value target for attackers and that level of attention cannot be handled by the humble passwords. In this blog I will be […]

Atharva Chincholkar February 22, 2021 Uncategorized

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