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Twitter has revealed more about the July 15 attack that saw several prominent accounts hijacked to promote a Bitcoin scam. The Saturday, July 18 update admits "The attackers successfully manipulated a small number of employees and used their credentials to access Twitter's internal systems, including getting through our two-factor protections."
Taking a closer look at the malware, the malicious Mac executable is located in "Contents/Resources/Base.lproj/" directory of the fake application and pretends to be a nib file, according to researchers at Malwarebytes, in a posting on Wednesday. Once it starts, it creates a property list file that specifies the application that needs to be executed after reboot, and the content of the plist file is hardcoded within the application.
This week we talk ransomware apologies, whether companies should be pushing 2FA and good vibrations, kind of. Host Anna Brading is joined by Sophos experts Mark Stockley, Paul Ducklin and me.
Nextcloud allows you to enforce groups to use two-factor authentication. Let's find out how to create a group and then add them to 2FA enforcement.
Singapore will bin the physical tokens used to provide two-factor authentication for some digital government services. The city-state operates "SingPass", a government service that connects Singapore's residents with 200 government services.
Nextcloud allows you to enforce groups to use two-factor authentication. With Nextcloud Hub you can enable 2FA globally, for individuals, or for groups.
The TrickBot trojan has a new trick up its sleeve for bypassing a new kind of two-factor authentication security method used by banks - by fooling its victims into downloading a malicious Android app. Researchers first discovered the mobile app after a September 2019 tweet by CERT-Bund flagging TrickBot using man-in-the-browser techniques.
If you want to enable two-factor authentication for Nextcloud on a per-user basis, it's just a simple app installation away.
If you want to enable two-factor authentication for Nextcloud on a per-user basis, it's just a simple app installation away. The first thing you must do is enable two-factor authentication for your Nextcloud server.
Saturday is the delayed deadline for UK banks and financial institutions to have implemented two-factor authentication for payment transactions. James Stickland, chief executive officer at authentication platform Veridium, said the huge growth in use of digital services made better authentication vital.