authentication process

Pierluigi Paganini May 09, 2014
NTLM flaws exploitation to access resources in corporate networks

Experts at Imperva have illustrated how to exploit NTLM flaws to conduct a Windows folder Poisoning Attack and steal access rights within corporate networks. Security vendor Imperva revealed that attackers can exploit specifically crafted shortcut icons to hack Windows machines and force them into sharing their network-access rights with a hacked PC. The experts at Imperva  have discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2012
LinkedIN – Vulnerability in the authentication process and related risks

A serious vulnerability has been found in the authentication process of the popular network LinkedIN, the news published on the Spanish blog of the security expert Fernando A. Lagos Berardi. The article published reports that a vulnerability in LinkedIn allows obtaining user’s password. For the authentication process LinkedIn adopts a token in login phase that can […]