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The Threat of Data Breach on Hospitals

In May of this year over one million patients and staff members of Tampa General Hospital were effected by a cybersecurity breach. (source) This attack went on for 18 days before unusual activity was detected...

School District Cyber Attacks

In November of 2020 the Baltimore County Public School district lost close to $10 Million in damages from a cyber attack. This is becoming increasingly more dangerous as hackers target school districts due to the...

Okta MFA Cloud Service Hack Exposed Customer Data

The Lapsus$ hacking group allegedly hacked into Okta, a major provider of cloud-based identity and access management services early this year. The Lapsus$ group has leaked screenshots of data from Okta’s internal systems. The Lapsus$...

Advantages of on-premise MFA

When considering MFA solutions, organizations may weigh cloud offerings versus on-premise deployments. As GreenRADIUS is primarily an on-premise MFA solution, there are key advantages over cloud MFA providers: GreenRADIUS deployments can be deployed within your...

GreenRADIUS not vulnerable to Log4j vulnerabilities

Summary CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046 (Log4Shell or LogJam) are both zero-day vulnerabilities in the widely used Apache Log4j Java-based logging library. Since it is widely used in many popular products, customers have contacted Green Rocket Security...

SolarWinds Hack Highlights The Importance of Multi-Factor Authentication

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...

A GreenRADIUS Two-Factor Authentication Plugin for WordPress

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...

2FA for GNOME Desktop for Linux

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...

YubiRADIUS No Longer Works With YubiCloud v1 Protocol

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...

2FA for Palo Alto Networks Firewalls in FIPS Mode Supported by GreenRADIUS

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)...