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That configuration is 2FA sent over SMS. The accounts using 2FA via a password app like Authy or Google's Authenticator have never had any problems. 2FA via an authenticator app isn't nearly as simple to crack.

DUCK. Yes, Uber has come out with a follow up report, and it seems that they're suggesting that a hacking group like LAPSUS$ was responsible. Just because you have those that's a security gate, but it's not the end-all and be-all to keeping someone out.

Phones, of course, can be made inaccessible with the use of passwords and face or fingerprint unlocking. Once they have the phone and the card, they register the card on the relevant bank's app on their own phone or computer.

Twilio's investigation into the attack on August 4 reveals that hackers gained access to some Authy user accounts and registered unauthorized devices. Authy is a two-factor authentication service from Twilio that allows users to secure their online accounts where the feature is supported by identifying a second time via a dedicated app after typing in the login credentials.

Threat actors are making their way around two-factor authentication and using other clever evasion tactics in a recently observed phishing campaign aimed at taking over Coinbase accounts to defraud users of their crypto balances. Attackers employ a range of tactics to avoid detection, including one researchers call "Short lived domains"-in which the domains used in the attack "Stay alive for extremely short periods of time"-that deviates from typical phishing practices, researchers wrote.

GitHub has announced the general availability of three significant improvements to npm, aiming to make using the software more secure and manageable. In summary, the new features include a more streamlined login and publishing experience, the ability to link Twitter and GitHub accounts to npm, and a new package signature verification system.

Like last time, they created an HTML email with a clickable link that itself looked like a URL, even though the actual URL it linked to was not the one that appeared in the text. This time the link you saw if you hovered over the blue text in the email really was a link to a URL hosted on the facebook.com domain.

The maintainers of the official third-party software repository for Python have begun imposing a new two-factor authentication condition for projects deemed "Critical." "We've begun rolling out a 2FA requirement: soon, maintainers of critical projects must have 2FA enabled to publish, update, or modify them," Python Package Index said in a tweet last week.

Although many community members praised the move, the developer of a popular Python project decided to delete his code from PyPI and republish it to invalidate the "Critical" status assigned to his project. We've begun rolling out a 2FA requirement: soon, maintainers of critical projects must have 2FA enabled to publish, update, or modify them.

You don't want that, but how do you prevent such a reality? One way is to enable two-factor authentication on the server. How do you set up SSH 2FA on your Ubuntu Server? Let me show you.