Why the long name? Okta discloses auth bypass bug affecting 52-character usernames

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Why the long name? Okta discloses auth bypass bug affecting 52-character usernames
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Mondays are for checking months of logs, apparently, if MFA's not enabled

In potentially bad news for those with long names and/or employers with verbose domain names, Okta spotted a security hole that could have allowed crims to pass Okta AD/LDAP Delegated Authentication using only a username.

That condition is arguably the most unusual out of them all, although not entirely out of the realm of possibility if a user's work email address is used as a username, for example. That cache would also have to be used first, which Okta said in its advisory"can occur if the AD/LDAP agent was down or cannot be reached, for example, due to high network traffic." And yet another caveat was that multi-factor authentication would also have to be disabled/never implemented for the bug to be active.

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