reader comments 107 with Share this story Twitter announced Friday that as of March 20, it will only allow its users to secure their accounts with SMS-based two-factor authentication if they pay for a Twitter Blue subscription. Two-factor authentication, or 2FA, requires users to log in with a username and password and then an additional ..
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Getty Images reader comments 31 with 0 posters participating Share this story Popular discussion website Reddit proved this week that its security still isn’t up to snuff when it disclosed yet another security breach that was the result of an attack that successfully phished an employee’s login credentials. In a post published Thursday, Reddit Chief ..
Enlarge / This is definitely not a Razer mouse—but you get the idea. reader comments 96 with 80 posters participating, including story author Share this story There has been a recent flurry of phishing attacks so surgically precise and well-executed that they’ve managed to fool some of the most aware people working in the cybersecurity ..
Enlarge / Close-up photograph of a SIM card, a SIM-card replacement, and a smartphone. reader comments 85 with 59 posters participating, including story author Share this story Ten people have been arrested in connection with a series of SIM-swapping attacks that reaped more than $100 million by taking over the mobile phone accounts of high-profile ..
reader comments 46 with 38 posters participating Share this story There’s wide consensus among security experts that physical two-factor authentication keys provide the most effective protection against account takeovers. Research published today doesn’t change that, but it does show how malicious attackers with physical possession of a Google Titan key can clone it. There are ..
Enlarge / An Ars-branded Yubikey. Steven Klein reader comments 184 with 125 posters participating Share this story Almost three years ago, Google introduced its Advanced Protection Program (APP), a security plan for high-risk users that requires hardware keys for account access and is arguably the industry’s most effective way to stop account takeovers in their ..
reader comments 60 with 45 posters participating Share this story Since December 2018, the Epic Games Store has maintained an aggressive weekly campaign of free game giveaways. That campaign changes this week, though not with any plans to stop offering freebies. Instead, Epic has updated the promotion with its first security-minded rule: if you want ..
reader comments 106 with 84 posters participating Share this story If ever there was a surefire way to sour users against a two-factor authentication system that was already highly flawed, Twitter has found it. On Tuesday, the social media site said that it used phone numbers and email addresses provided for 2FA protection to tailor ..
reader comments 37 with 30 posters participating Share this story It could soon become easier for Android users to securely log in to Web accounts. Starting today, Google is rolling out a service that lets people on version 7 and later of Google’s mobile operating system use their device’s fingerprint or screen lock instead of ..
reader comments 44 with 33 posters participating Share this story Google is warning that the Bluetooth Low Energy version of the Titan security key it sells for two-factor authentication can be hijacked by nearby attackers, and the company is advising users to get a free replacement device that fixes the vulnerability. A misconfiguration in the ..