Tag: 2-Factor Authentication
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Mozilla mandates 2FA security for Firefox developers
Mozilla last week fired off an important memo to all Firefox extension developers telling them to turn on authentication (2FA) on their …
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Apple iOS 13.3 is here, bringing support for keyfobby authentication
On Tuesday, as expected, Apple released iOS 13.3, iPadOS 13.3, tvOS 13.3, and watchOS 6.1.1 to the public, bringing bug fixes and …
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Two men busted for hijacking victims’ phones and email accounts
Prosecutors allege that Meiggs and Harrington took over their targets’ mobile phone and email accounts via SIM-swapping: One would …
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Sextortionist whisks away sex tapes using just a phone number
After a 33-year-old businessman from Toronto got jumped by a sextortionist who got at his phone’s sex tapes via SIM-swap fraud, Canadian …
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Most Americans don’t have a clue what https:// means
55% of US adults couldn’t identify an example of 2FA, and only 30% knew that starting a URL with means that the information sent to that …
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Twitter used 2FA phone numbers for targeted advertising
Does Twitter know your email address and your phone number? Depending on how long ago you started using Twitter, it’s a near certainty …
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YouTube ‘influencers’ get 2FA tokens phished
A wave of hijackings over the weekend whisked accounts out from under high-profile YouTubers, many of them in the auto-tuning and car …
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Google fixes Chromebook 2FA flaw in ‘built-in security key’
Google has discovered a serious flaw in a Chromebook security feature which allows owners to press their device’s power button to …
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Twitter turns off SMS texting after @Jack hijacking
Following Jack Dorsey’s Twitter account getting hi-@jack(ed), Twitter has temporarily yanked the ability to tweet via SMS – one of the …
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Twitter slaps back SMS texting after @Jack hijacking
Following Jack Dorsey’s Twitter account getting hi-@jack(ed), Twitter has temporarily yanked the ability to tweet via SMS – one of the …
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Court squeezes $1 million back from convicted phisher
Wooo, fancy – a guy who phished more than 100 companies out of nearly £1m (around $1.1m) in cryptocurrency used some of that money to …
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