Security News

Google’s new authentication option: a tap on the screen (Help Net Security)

2016-06-22 18:48

Google knowns that usability is a pre-requisite for security, so they’ve come up (yet again) with a new option within the 2-step verification feature for Google accounts: Google prompt. Google...

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When Multi-Factor Authentication Fails (SecurityWeek)

2016-06-08 11:56

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Make your cloud safer: How you can use two-factor authentication to protect cloud services (ZDNet)

2016-05-27 18:10

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Behavior is the new authentication: A look into the future (Help Net Security)

2016-05-23 12:50

In the next few years organizations will face extreme IT security challenges. Hackers are targeting humans instead of machines. All the most costly cyber attacks (APTs, ransomware) are a result of...

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Instagram Patches Brute-Force Authentication Flaws (Threatpost)

2016-05-20 19:15

Facebook paid researcher Arne Swinnen a $5,000 bounty for a pair of authentication vulnerabilities in Instagram that enabled brute-force attacks against usernames and passwords.

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