Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) is a modular framework that allows applications such as su, sudo, and sshd to perform security policy logic such as authentication without implementing it directly. Applications delegate authentication to the libpam library, which then loads and executes PAM modules according to the configuration information before aggregating the results. For example, when […]| ASEC
Learn how unified Identity and Privileged Access Management defense can protect against AI-powered attacks and prevent costly breaches averaging $4M.| Identity Defined Security Alliance
Nella notte tra il 4 e il 5 maggio il governo israeliano ha approvato un piano che prevede l’espansione della sua offensiva nella Striscia di Gaza e la “conquista” del territorio. Leggi| Internazionale
The survivor of a terrifying shark attack at Beachport in South Australia's south-east initially thought the animal was another swimmer, her husband says — but he has little doubt his wife will return to the water after recovering in hospital and at home.| www.abc.net.au
On the road to libfprint and fprintd 2.0, we've been fixing some long-standing bugs, including one that required porting our PAM module from dbus-glib to sd-bus, systemd's D-Bus library implementation.| /bɑs ˈtjɛ̃ no ˈse ʁɑ/ (hadess) | News
This blog was originally published by Bravura here. Managing data access is an ongoing journey for businesses in the financial services industry. Policies such as the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) establish regulations that your business must follow when implementing any identity access management (IAM) or privileged access management (PAM) tool. Auditors will check your system for compliance...| Identity Defined Security Alliance
The survivor of a shark bite in South Australia's south-east is recovering well, her family said as they praised the quick response of the local swimming group and emergency services.| www.abc.net.au
By employing IAM and PAM technologies, businesses can reduce breaches, maintain compliance and protect their critical assets.| Verinext
This PAM module allows to use smart cards as an authentication factor on Linux. In its 0.6.12 release the use of PAM_IGNORE return values introduced a regression that can lead to complete authentication bypass in some scenarios.| SUSE Security Team Blog
pam-u2f allows to use U2F (Universal 2nd Factor) devices like YubiKeys in the PAM authentication stack. Improper use of PAM_IGNORE return values in the module implementation could allow bypass of the second factor or password-less login without inserting the proper device.| SUSE Security Team Blog
oath-toolkit contains libraries and utilities for managing one-time password (OTP) authentication e.g. as a second factor to password authentication. Its pam_oath.so PAM module performs unsafe operations in directories potentially controlled by unprivileged users, leading to possible privilege escalation.| SUSE Security Team Blog