identity-security
Safeguard articles tagged "identity-security" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
35 articles
Device Code Phishing Rose 15x. Checking the URL Does Not Help.
Device code phishing sends victims to a genuine Microsoft page to enter a genuine code. There is no fake domain and no credential to steal. Training built on spotting bad URLs has nothing to use.
Five Numbers From the CrowdStrike 2026 Threat Hunting Report That Should Change Your Roadmap
87% of software registry threats were malicious npm packages. 88% of exploitation with a public PoC happened inside 48 hours. Device code phishing rose 15x. Five numbers, five pieces of work.
Best zero trust architecture implementation tools
A vendor-neutral buyer's guide to zero trust architecture tools: what to evaluate, plus honest strengths and limits of six leading platforms compared.
The four pillars every enterprise security program needs
Identity, patching, segmentation, and logging aren't a checklist — they're the four controls that determine whether a breach stays contained or becomes Log4Shell.
SAML SSO vulnerabilities: signature wrapping and assertion replay explained
A 2024 ruby-saml flaw (CVE-2024-45409, CVSS 9.8) let attackers forge SAML assertions and log in as any user, including admins — seven years after the same bug class was first disclosed.
Multi-Factor Authentication Bypass via Privilege Escalation
Attackers increasingly skip cracking MFA altogether — they escalate privileges around it. Real cases from Microsoft, Uber, and SolarWinds show how, and what actually stops it.
AWS IAM Security Best Practices: A 2026 Field Guide
IAM is where most AWS breaches actually happen. This field guide covers least privilege, role assumption, permission boundaries, and the policy patterns that keep blast radius small.
Stryker Wiper Attack: When Hacktivists Used Intune to Brick 200,000 Medtech Devices
An Iran-aligned group used a compromised admin account and Microsoft Intune to factory-reset roughly 200,000 of Stryker's devices in real time. The lesson is uncomfortable: your management plane is your biggest single point of failure.
Applying least privilege IAM in cloud-native environments
Least privilege IAM fails in practice because permissions are granted for convenience and rarely revoked. Here's how to fix that at cloud scale.
Carnival Data Breach (May 2026): 5.99M Records Lost via Salesforce Social Engineering
Carnival confirmed a breach affecting nearly 6 million people on May 28, 2026, after an attacker socially engineered an employee into granting access to its IT environment. Here is the verified chain and what defenders should do.
FBI Warns on Kali365: A PhaaS Kit That Steals M365 OAuth Tokens and Bypasses MFA (May 2026)
The FBI's May 21, 2026 IC3 advisory details Kali365, a Telegram-distributed phishing-as-a-service kit that uses device-code phishing to capture Microsoft 365 access and refresh tokens, granting password-free, MFA-immune persistence.
The 'Code of Conduct' Phishing Wave: AiTM Token Theft Hit 13,000 Orgs (May 2026)
Microsoft detailed a polished phishing campaign that weaponized fake HR 'code of conduct' investigations to steal session tokens via adversary-in-the-middle proxies, bypassing MFA across 13,000+ organizations in 26 countries.
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