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August 27, 2017

Is Your Mobile Carrier Your Weakest Link?

This post was originally published on this siteMore online services than ever now offer two-step authentication — requiring customers to complete a login using their phone or other mobile device after supplying a username and password. But with so many services relying on your mobile for that second factor, there has never been more riding on the security of your mobile account. Below are some tips to ensure your mobile device (or, more specifically, your mobile carrier) isn’t the weakest link in your security chain. For reasons explored more in The Value of a Hacked Email Account, many people become so preoccupied with securing […]

August 1, 2018

Reddit Breach Highlights Limits of SMS-Based Authentication

This post was originally published on this siteReddit.com today disclosed that a data breach exposed some internal data, as well as email addresses and passwords for some Reddit users. As Web site breaches go, this one doesn’t seem too severe. What’s interesting about the incident is that it showcases once again why relying on mobile text messages (SMS) for two-factor authentication (2FA) can lull companies and end users into a false sense of security. In a post to Reddit, the social news aggregation platform said it learned on June 19 that between June 14 and 18 an attacker compromised a […]

August 29, 2018

Instagram’s New Security Tools are a Welcome Step, But Not Enough

This post was originally published on this siteInstagram users should soon have more secure options for protecting their accounts against Internet bad guys. On Tuesday, the Facebook-owned social network said it is in the process of rolling out support for third-party authentication apps. Unfortunately, this welcome new security offering does nothing to block Instagram account takeovers when thieves manage to hijack a target’s mobile phone number — an increasingly common crime. New two-factor authentication options Instagram says it is rolling out to users over the next few weeks. For years, security experts have warned that hackers are exploiting weak authentication […]