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Credential Guard prevents attackers from dumping credentials stored in LSASS by running LSASS in a virtualized container that even a user with SYSTEM privileges cannot access. [5] The system then creates a proxy process called LSAIso (LSA Isolated) for communication with the virtualized LSASS process.
McAfee WebAdvisor, previously known as McAfee SiteAdvisor, is a service that reports on the safety of web sites by crawling the web and testing the sites it finds for malware and spam. A browser extension can show these ratings on hyperlinks such as on web search results.
Digest access authentication is one of the agreed-upon methods a web server can use to negotiate credentials, such as username or password, with a user's web browser. This can be used to confirm the identity of a user before sending sensitive information, such as online banking transaction history.
In basic HTTP authentication, a request contains a header field in the form of Authorization: Basic <credentials>, where <credentials> is the Base64 encoding of ID and password joined by a single colon :. It was originally implemented by Ari Luotonen at CERN in 1993 [1] and defined in the HTTP 1.0 specification in 1996. [2]
Unique Credentials for Each Website: WebAuthn ensures credentials are unique per website, eliminating the following risks and vulnerabilities: Credential stuffing attacks, where attackers use credentials from one data breach across multiple sites. Phishing attacks, as credentials cannot be reused or misapplied to different websites.
A site-specific browser (SSB) is a software application that is dedicated to accessing pages from a single source (site) on a computer network such as the Internet or a private intranet. SSBs typically simplify the more complex functions of a web browser by excluding the menus, toolbars and browser GUI associated with functions that are ...
The intro points out that the McAfee SiteAdvisor (a.k.a. WebAdvisor) is a service that reports on the safety of web sites by crawling the web and testing the sites it finds for malware and spam. Though that’s the type of business that McAfee does, the article criticizes the service for “only” rating sites based on the risk of malware or ...
AdGuard claims that their servers were not compromised and instead attackers used credential pairs reused by victims on other sites and stolen from those other sites. According to company spokesperson, they "do not know what accounts exactly were accessed by the attackers", so the company had reset passwords for all accounts "as a precautionary ...