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It's easy to forget that the "Obviousness" of many scam emails comes from the fact that the crooks never intended those scams for us in the first place. We received a phish this morning that specifically targeted one of the main South African banks.
Google announced today that they plan on auto-enrolling 150 million accounts into two-factor authentication by the end of 2021. To protect Google accounts from unauthorized access, it is possible to enroll in an optional security feature called two-factor authentication, or as Google likes to call it, 2-step verification.
It's telling me I am nearing the end of the app's free trial period and now is the time to commit to a subscription payment or lose the "Pro" features I have been "Enjoying." Although the password app is free, the German volunteer developer who wrote and maintains it always asks his users for modest donations at this time of year to coincide with Oktoberfest.
It's telling me I am nearing the end of the app's free trial period and now is the time to commit to a subscription payment or lose the "Pro" features I have been "Enjoying." Although the password app is free, the German volunteer developer who wrote and maintains it always asks his users for modest donations at this time of year to coincide with Oktoberfest.
Coinbase, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange with approximately 68 million users from over 100 countries, has scared a significant amount of its users with erroneous 2FA warnings. As the crypto exchange revealed over the weekend in a Twitter thread, it accidentally alerted roughly 125,000 customers that their 2FA settings had have been changed on August 28, between 1:45 pm PST and 3:07 pm PST. In a Friday incident report, Coinbase explained that the notifications were sent in error and that customers are not required to take any action to restore their 2FA settings.
GitHub urges its user base to toggle on two-factor authentication after deprecating password-based authentication for Git operations. "If you have not done so already, please take this moment to enable 2FA for your GitHub account," the company's Chief Security Officer Mike Hanley said.
When your Linux servers are giving you fits, Jack Wallen has the solution for you.
Jack Wallen shows you how to keep your Wordpress account safe with two-factor authentication.
Google says that enforcing two-step verification on Google accounts of Chrome Web Store developers will take longer than expected. As first announced in June, Google will require all Chrome extension developers to enable 2-Step Verification to publish or update their extensions after August 2nd. "The Chrome Web Store will begin enforcing the Two Step Verification requirement in August, 2021," Chrome Trust & Safety Team members Rebecca Soares and Benjamin Ackerman said two months ago.
While some high-profile Twitter accounts were successfully hijacked last year despite having 2FA enabled after attackers gained access to internal admin systems, you should still toggle on 2FA to be protected against less-sophisticated hacking attempts. Despite the meager rate of adoption, Twitter saw a growing number of users who enable 2FA to secure their accounts from hijacking attempts, with an increase of 9.1% from July to December 2020.