Tag Archives: 2FA

Jessica Haworth

24 February 2023 at 13:09 UTC

Updated: 24 February 2023 at 13:15 UTC

Your fortnightly rundown of AppSec vulnerabilities, new hacking techniques, and other cybersecurity news

Twitter faced further criticism this week when Elon Musk’s social networking platform announced SMS-based 2FA will only be available to paying customers going forward.

The social media site historically enabled two-factor authentication (2FA) to all users, providing they connected their mobile phone number to their account.

This week, however, users were warned that this security option would no longer be available to users who did not pay for verification.

Of course, this sparked huge backlash online,…

Security researchers have discovered a major security flaw in cPanel, a popular software suite used by web hosting companies to manage websites for their customers.

The bug, discovered by security researchers from Digital Defense, allows attackers to bypass two-factor authentication (2FA) for cPanel accounts.

These accounts are used by website owners to access and manage their websites and underlying server settings. Access to these accounts is critical, as once compromised, they grant threat actors full control over a victim’s site.

On its website, cPanel boasts that its software is currently used by hundreds of web hosting companies to manage more than 70 million domains across the world.

But in a press…

Security researchers have discovered a major security flaw in cPanel, a popular software suite used by web hosting companies to manage websites for their customers.

The bug, discovered by security researchers from Digital Defense, allows attackers to bypass two-factor authentication (2FA) for cPanel accounts.

These accounts are used by website owners to access and manage their websites and underlying server settings. Access to these accounts is critical, as once compromised, they grant threat actors full control over a victim’s site.

On its website, cPanel boasts that its software is currently used by hundreds of web hosting companies to manage more than 70 million domains across the world.

But in a