March 17, 2020

Europol busts up two SIM-swapping hacking rings

What a nightmare: your phone goes dead, and you can't log into your bank account because it's controlled by a hacker who's draining you dry.

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March 09, 2020

99% of compromised Microsoft enterprise accounts lack MFA

Cybercriminals compromise over a million Microsoft enterprise accounts each month as too few customers use multi-factor authentication.

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December 23, 2019

Facebook will stop mining contacts with your 2FA number

Facebook clearly likes to use as much of your personal data as it feels it can, and that includes the phone number linked to your 2FA setting.

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December 17, 2019

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 addons.mozilla.org (AMO) accounts.

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October 16, 2019

Food writer Jack Monroe loses at least £5,000 in SIM-swap fraud

Her accounts were drained in spite of using 2FA, showing that SIM swaps can still circumvent what's a good security tool.

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October 11, 2019

Most Americans don’t have a clue what https:// means

...and wouldn't know 2FA from a hole in the ground, according to Pew Research.

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October 11, 2019

Hackers bypassing some types of 2FA security FBI warns

Some types of 2FA security can no longer be guaranteed to keep the bad guys out, the FBI warned US companies.

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September 24, 2019

YouTube ‘influencers’ get 2FA tokens phished

100K or so creators in the YouTube car community were targeted by a phishing campaign that captured 2FA codes.

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September 16, 2019

Google fixes Chromebook 2FA flaw in ‘built-in security key’

Google has discovered a flaw in a Chromebook security feature which allows owners to press their device’s power button to initiate U2F 2FA.

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