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GreenRADIUS Update – v4.1.10.10
The latest update has been released. This includes a few important security updates and some minor enhancements. The release notes can be found here. This update is for GreenRADIUS v4.1.3.4 and above. Please contact us if you are interested in learning more.
Green Rocket Security introduces our GRS ADFS Plugin enabling MFA in ADFS environments
Microsoft ADFS (Active Directory Federation Service) offers a Single Sign On (SSO) solution to users for applications, services and resources inside the organization (such as Web apps and disparate apps and resources) as well as SSO to the company’s subscription based...
Novel Coronavirus / COVID-19 – How Green Rocket Security Can Help
As the Novel Coronavirus / COVID-19 impacts life around the world, it has also forced many workers to connect and work remotely. This opens up users and organizations to potential threats with remote access being one of the prime targets for hackers. In an in-person...
2FA for GNOME Desktop for Linux
Did you know that the GNOME Desktop Manager supports two-factor authentication for protection? The GNOME Desktop Manager (GDM) performs its user authentication through PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module). PAM is a highly configurable system used to control how...
What’s New with GreenRADIUS v4.0 — FIPS and Containerization
We are excited to announce the release of GreenRADIUS v4.0! With this release, GreenRADIUS becomes even more versatile to meet various customer requirements. Among the most important changes are the following: FIPS 140-2 complianceContainerizationUpgrade to Ubuntu...
Be Sure To Add 2FA to Internal Systems As Well
Generally, when we think of securing our organization, we usually focus on securing the perimeter with firewalls, VPNs, limiting access points, and maybe some mail filtering to block malicious attachments. But some attacks that have been talked about recently show...
Should World Password Day Become World 2FA Day?
Checking the National Day Calendar today, I see that it is World Password Day. I found it interesting that the primary website dedicated to this seems not to have been updated since last year (maybe someone forgot the password to login?), but this does bring up an...
YubiRADIUS No Longer Works With YubiCloud v1 Protocol
As Yubico announced a few months ago, Yubico is no longer supporting the YubiCloud v1 protocol. This took full effect on February 4 of this year. As such, any YubiRADIUS systems utilizing the YubiCloud will no longer validate YubiKey OTPs as before. Fortunately, for...
Windows 2FA has never been so simple… until now
Finding an efficient and easy-to-deploy 2FA solution may be challenging today. Mostly, the challenge comes when looking for an authentication system with individual user access control, reporting features, or offline and stand-alone capabilities under the same user...
SMBs Need 2FA Also
I'm sure you've heard about the numerous cyber attacks on big businesses like Target, Chase Bank, Equifax, and Sony, and other large organizations like the U.S. Government. These are big enterprises that have the resources to make their systems as secure as possible,...
Standards for Complex Passwords, Now Useless?
There are a lot of ways to create "complex" passwords - use different passwords for different accounts, do not use names and special dates, use a combination of letters, numbers and characters, etc. Having a complex password increases password strength, but is it...
UK Parliament Hit By Cyber Attack
Late last week, the UK Parliament was under a "sustained" cyber attack. Of course, the hackers were exploiting a known weakness common to many organizations -- single-factor authentication which relies solely on passwords. The parliamentary authorities said hackers...
The Most Popular (and Worst) Passwords
A recent study of five million leaked passwords from enterprises in 2016 revealed the most popular ones among users. Tops on the list was "123456," which makes up about 4% of the sample set, followed closely by "password." In its entirety, the list shows that users...