Thousands of school districts in the US use the software system, Power School, as a tool to manage student and teacher information. Over 60 million students have data stored with this software. This past December the...
In April 2021, Yubico announced “YK-VAL, YK-KSM and YubiHSM 1 End-of-Life”, referencing that the libraries used outdated/vulnerable technologies. As an alternative – in the same article, Yubico continues – “Yubico recommends customers who use these...
A large-scale cyber-attack was confirmed earlier this week that includes breaches into United States federal government agencies. On Monday, SolarWinds confirmed that Orion – its flagship network management software – had served as the unwitting...
Weak passwords and cross-site password reuse are two of the most common ways to break into a WordPress installation. Fortunately, WordPress plugins are able to augment the system’s default authentication. Our GreenRADIUS WordPress Authentication Plugin...
A new ransomware has been uncovered by Blackberry that has been “in-the-wild” since at least December 2019. Named “Tycoon”, it targets Windows and Linux systems on compromised networks. And it seems to specifically target the...
Microsoft ADFS (Active Directory Federation Service) offers a Single Sign On (SSO) solution to users for applications, services and resources inside the organization (such as Web apps and disparate apps and resources) as well as...
Did you know that the GNOME Desktop Manager supports two-factor authentication for protection? The GNOME Desktop Manager (GDM) performs its user authentication through PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module). PAM is a highly configurable system used to...
As Yubico announced a few months ago, Yubico is no longer supporting the YubiCloud v1 protocol. This took full effect on February 4 of this year. As such, any YubiRADIUS systems utilizing the YubiCloud will...
Finding an efficient and easy-to-deploy 2FA solution may be challenging today. Mostly, the challenge comes when looking for an authentication system with individual user access control, reporting features, or offline and stand-alone capabilities under the...
Palo Alto Networks (PAN) firewalls are FIPS-140-2 certified. FIPS certification is generally required for use of firewalls in the government space. Equally important as FIPS 140-2 mode is the ability to use 2FA (two-factor authentication)...
