How to Protect Yourself from Twitter’s 2FA Crackdown
Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 15:04:01 +0000
Twitter is disabling SMS-based two-factor authentication. Switch to these alternatives to keep your account safe.
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Twitter’s Two-Factor Authentication Change ‘Doesn’t Make Sense’
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 15:34:33 +0000
The company will soon require users to pay for a Twitter Blue subscription to get sign-in codes via SMS. Security experts are baffled.
Read moreHackers Ran Amok Inside GoDaddy for Nearly 3 Years
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0000
Plus: The FBI got (at least a little bit) hacked, an election-disruption firm gets exposed, Russia mulls allowing “patriotic hacking,” and more.
Read moreData Breaches: The Complete WIRED Guide
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 19:02:00 +0000
Everything you need to know about the past, present, and future of data security—from Equifax to Yahoo—and the problem with Social Security numbers.
Read moreUS Border Protection Is Finally Able to Check E-Passport Data
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:00:00 +0000
After 16 years, the agency has implemented the software to cryptographically verify digital passport data—and it’s already caught a dozen alleged fraudsters.
Read moreThree zero-days require urgent attention for Windows, Exchange
Microsoft’s February Patch Tuesday update deals with 76 vulnerabilities that affect Windows, Exchange, Office, and Microsoft development tools — and three Windows vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-21823, CVE-2023-21715 and CVE-2023-23376) have been reported as exploited in the wild and require immediate attention.
Crypto Buyers Beware: 1 in 4 New Tokens of Any Value Is a Scam
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:00:00 +0000
And according to tracing firm Chainalysis, one very prolific scammer ran at least 264 of those scams in 2022 alone.
Read moreThe East Palestine, Ohio Train Derailment Created a Perfect TikTok Storm
Credit to Author: Amanda Hoover| Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 21:38:40 +0000
The social media platform helped push the story into the mainstream while also fueling misinformation and conspiracy theories.
Read moreSecurity tool adoption jumps, Okta report shows
Identity and access management (IAM) vendor Okta today released a report detailing app use and security trends among its broad user base. Among other trends it identified, the report found that zero trust security policies have become more common, and uptake of a wide range of security tools has been sharply on the rise.
Okta survyed 17,000 customers globally, and found that zero trust usage among its clients has increased from 10% two years ago to 22% today, indicating both that the philosophy is more popular than ever, and that a wide swathe of the market is still there to be captured, according to the report.