A fake Zoom meeting page looks real, triggers a bogus “update,” and silently installs surveillance software.
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Before you can securely sign software or automate code signing in your Windows environment, you will need to configure your credentials for DigiCert® KeyLocker and the Signing Manager Command-Line Tool (SMCTL). Your credentials create a trusted connection between your local signing tools and DigiCert ONE to ensure that only authorized users are able to access… Read More How to Setup Credentials for Windows to Use DigiCert KeyLocker & SMCTL?
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Learn why identity must be built into SaaS architecture from day one to ensure secure authentication, compliance, and scalable growth.
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Discord improves collaboration, but a compromised account can expose credentials, customer data and internal plans. Learn the risks and how to reduce exposure.
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A convincing fake Avast site displays a €499.99 charge and promises a refund. Instead, it harvests your name, address, and full credit card details.
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A report published by CrowdStrike today finds the average breakout time for a cyberattack in 2025 has been reduced to 29 minutes, representing a 65% year-over-year reduction. At the same time, CrowdStrike is also reporting there was a 42% increase in the number of zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited prior to public disclosure. Additionally, 82% of..
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Master Your Passwordless Future: Introducing Thales Authenticator Lifecycle Manager
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Tue, 02/24/2026 - 07:53
The move to passwordless authentication is no longer a distant goal; it's a present-day necessity. Organizations are rapidly adopting FIDO2 authenticators to defend against phishing and strengthen their security posture. While this shift enhances security, it introduces a new challenge: managing thousands of hardware authenticators at scale. How do you handle enrollment, replacement, and revocation without overwhelming your IT team?
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The move to passwordless authentication is no longer a distant goal; it's a present-day necessity. Organizations are rapidly adopting FIDO2 authenticators to defend against phishing and strengthen their security posture. While this shift enhances security, it introduces a new challenge: managing thousands of hardware authenticators at scale. How do you handle enrollment, replacement, and revocation without overwhelming your IT team?
This is where Thales Authenticator Lifecycle Manager comes in. It's an enterprise-grade Software-as-a-Service built to centralize and streamline the management of your FIDO2 security keys throughout their entire lifecycle. This platform transforms a complex operational burden into a streamlined, secure, and scalable process, empowering your organization to embrace a phishing-resistant future with confidence.
The Challenge of Managing Authenticators at ScaleOrganizations face several critical pain points as they transition to passwordless authentication at scale.
For Managed Service Providers (MSPs), managing authenticators across multiple client environments without a unified platform is a logistical nightmare. The result is increased helpdesk costs, frustrated users, and a slower-than-desired rollout of passwordless initiatives.
A Centralized Solution for Total ControlThales Authenticator Lifecycle Manager provides a single pane of glass to govern every FIDO2 authenticator across your enterprise. It’s built to solve the core challenges of authenticator management by delivering automation, visibility, and control.
Centralized Dashboard
A centralized dashboard transforms the way organizations manage authenticators at scale, offering IT teams a unified platform to efficiently assign, revoke, and reset authentication devices for users across all departments and locations. With this tool, administrators can complete lifecycle actions in real time, minimizing operational delays and reducing the complexity of provisioning secure access.
On-Behalf FIDO Key Registration
This capability empowers IT administrators to register and assign FIDO keys to users without requiring direct action from the end user, greatly reducing friction during device onboarding. By centralizing registration, assignment, and revocation processes, organizations can efficiently provision authenticators for large teams, ensuring that every user has access to secure, passwordless authentication from day one.
Granular Policy Enforcement
Consistency is key to strong security. The platform enables you to define and apply granular security policies for authenticator usage and user access that persist through the entire authenticator lifecycle. This includes PIN policies, such as defining a minimum PIN length, enforce the user verification during the login or control the list of web services the user can access.
Comprehensive Auditing and Reporting
What you can't see, you can't secure. Thales Authenticator Lifecycle Manager maintains a comprehensive audit trail of every lifecycle management event. This capability is essential for providing concrete evidence that your authenticators are well-managed.
Unlocking Value for Every StakeholderThales Authenticator Lifecycle Manager delivers targeted benefits for all stakeholders, from IT security to end users and Managed service providers
Simplified Users Onboarding / Recovery
This simplified approach accelerates FIDO adoption across the organization.
Simplified IT Administration
The platform significantly reduces operational complexity.
By centralizing management, it lowers the total cost of ownership for your passwordless infrastructure.
Increased Security Posture
This solution is a powerful enabler for Zero Trust architecture. By ensuring high-assurance identity assurance through FIDO2, it helps eliminate the primary attack vector for data breaches: compromised credentials. The robust auditing and policy enforcement capabilities provide the visibility and control needed to transform authenticator management from an operational task into a strategic security advantage.
Scalability For Managed Service Providers
For MSPs, scalability and efficiency are paramount. The multi-tenant design allows you to scale your passwordless authentication services across your entire client base without adding proportional administrative overhead. You can deliver consistent, high-value security services, strengthen client relationships, and position your offering as a leader in modern authentication management.
Take Control of Your Passwordless JourneyImplementing phishing-resistant authentication shouldn't create new management headaches. With Thales Authenticator Lifecycle Manager, you can accelerate your adoption of FIDO2, enhance your security posture, and simplify operations all at once. It's time to move beyond spreadsheets and manual workflows and embrace a solution built for the future of enterprise security.
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Malicious and risky mobile apps are exposing enterprise data. Learn why mobile-first workplaces need behavior-based app security visibility.
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Are Current Secrets Vaulting Solutions Meeting Enterprise Expectations? What drives enterprise satisfaction with secrets vaulting systems, and are current solutions living up to the expectations? When organizations increasingly move towards cloud-based environments, managing Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and secrets security becomes a critical component of an effective cybersecurity strategy. NHIs are essentially machine identities, and managing […]
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What Is the Role of Agentic AI in Managing Machine Identities? How can organizations enhance their security measures where teeming with sophisticated cybersecurity threats? The answer may be in evolving role of Agentic AI, particularly in managing machine identities. With the rise of cloud technologies and automated systems, machine identities—often seen as Non-Human Identities (NHIs)—play […]
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Is Your Organization Prepared for the Surge of Non-Human Identities in Cloud Security? When businesses increasingly shift their operations to the cloud, the complexities of cybersecurity also grow. A little-discussed aspect of this transition is the management of Non-Human Identities (NHIs). These are essentially the machine identities that navigate secure environments, operating through encrypted secrets […]
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Claude Code Security marks a shift in AI code review.
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OpenClaw is a hot topic at the moment. But what is it and how can you use the 24/7 AI assistant in a safe way?
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Session 13B: API Security
Authors, Creators & Presenters: Miaoqian Lin (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Kai Chen (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Yi Yang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Jinghua Liu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
PAPER
Uncovering The Iceberg From The Tip: Generating API Specifications For Bug Detection Via Specification Propagation Analysis
Modern software often provides diverse APIs to facilitate development. Certain APIs, when used, can affect variables and require post-handling, such as error checks and resource releases. Developers should adhere to their usage specifications when using these APIs. Failure to do so can cause serious security threats, such as memory corruption and system crashes. Detecting such misuse depends on comprehensive API specifications, as violations of these specifications indicate API misuse. Previous studies have proposed extracting API specifications from various artifacts, including API documentation, usage patterns, and bug patches. However, these artifacts are frequently incomplete or unavailable for many APIs. As a result, the lack of specifications for uncovered APIs causes many false negatives in bug detection. In this paper, we introduce the idea of API Specification Propagation, which suggests that API specifications propagate through hierarchical API call chains. In particular, modern software often adopts a hierarchical API design, where high-level APIs build on low-level ones. When high-level APIs wrap low-level ones, they may inherit the corresponding specifications. Based on this idea, we present APISpecGen, which uses known specifications as seeds and performs bidirectional propagation analysis to generate specifications for new APIs. Specifically, given the seed specifications, APISpecGen infers which APIs the specifications might propagate to or originate from. To further generate specifications for the inferred APIs, APISpecGen combines API usage and validates them using data-flow analysis based on the seed specifications. Besides, APISpecGen iteratively uses the generated specifications as new seeds to cover more APIs. For efficient and accurate analysis, APISpecGen focuses only on code relevant to the specifications, ignoring irrelevant semantics. We implemented APISpecGen and evaluated it for specification generation and API misuse detection. With 6 specifications as seeds, APISpecGen generated 7332 specifications. Most of the generated specifications could not be covered by state-of-the-art work due to the quality of their sources. With the generated specifications, APISpecGen detected 186 new bugs in the Linux kernel, 113 of them have been confirmed by the developers, with 8 CVEs assigned.
ABOUT NDSS
The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) fosters information exchange among researchers and practitioners of network and distributed system security. The target audience includes those interested in practical aspects of network and distributed system security, with a focus on actual system design and implementation. A major goal is to encourage and enable the Internet community to apply, deploy, and advance the state of available security technologies.
Our thanks to the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium for publishing their Creators, Authors and Presenter’s superb NDSS Symposium 2025 Conference content on the Organizations' YouTube Channel.
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via the comic artistry and dry wit of Randall Munroe, creator of XKCD
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Session 13B: API Security
Authors, Creators & Presenters: Jinghua Liu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Yi Yang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Kai Chen (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Miaoqian Lin (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
PAPER
Generating API Parameter Security Rules with LLM for API Misuse Detection
When utilizing library APIs, developers should follow the API security rules to mitigate the risk of API misuse. API Parameter Security Rule (APSR) is a common type of security rule that specifies how API parameters should be safely used and places constraints on their values. Failure to comply with the APSRs can lead to severe security issues, including null pointer dereference and memory corruption. Manually analyzing numerous APIs and their parameters to construct APSRs is labor-intensive and needs to be automated. Existing studies generate APSRs from documentation and code, but the missing information and limited analysis heuristics result in missing APSRs. Due to the superior Large Language Model's (LLM) capability in code analysis and text generation without predefined heuristics, we attempt to utilize it to address the challenge encountered in API misuse detection. However, directly utilizing LLMs leads to incorrect APSRs which may lead to false bugs in detection, and overly general APSRs that could not generate applicable detection code resulting in many security bugs undiscovered. In this paper, we present a new framework, named GPTAid, for automatic APSRs generation by analyzing API source code with LLM and detecting API misuse caused by incorrect parameter use. To validate the correctness of the LLM-generated APSRs, we propose an execution feedback-checking approach based on the observation that security-critical API misuse is often caused by APSRs violations, and most of them result in runtime errors. Specifically, GPTAid first uses LLM to generate raw APSRs and the Right calling code, and then generates Violation code for each raw APSR by modifying the Right calling code using LLM. Subsequently, GPTAid performs dynamic execution on each piece of Violation code and further filters out the incorrect APSRs based on runtime errors. To further generate concrete APSRs, GPTAid employs a code differential analysis to refine the filtered ones. Particularly, as the programming language is more precise than natural language, GPTAid identifies the key operations within Violation code by differential analysis, and then generates the corresponding concrete APSR based on the aforementioned operations. These concrete APSRs could be precisely interpreted into applicable detection code, which proven to be effective in API misuse detection. Implementing on the dataset containing 200 randomly selected APIs from eight popular libraries, GPTAid achieves a precision of 92.3%. Moreover, it generates 6 times more APSRs than state-of-the-art detectors on a comparison dataset of previously reported bugs and APSRs. We further evaluated GPTAid on 47 applications, 210 unknown security bugs were found potentially resulting in severe security issues (e.g., system crashes), 150 of which have been confirmed by developers after our reports.
ABOUT NDSS
The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) fosters information exchange among researchers and practitioners of network and distributed system security. The target audience includes those interested in practical aspects of network and distributed system security, with a focus on actual system design and implementation. A major goal is to encourage and enable the Internet community to apply, deploy, and advance the state of available security technologies.
Our thanks to the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium for publishing their Creators, Authors and Presenter’s superb NDSS Symposium 2025 Conference content on the Organizations' YouTube Channel.
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