Welcome to Internet Safety Month, a once-a-year event in which you, the public, are told that anywhere between three and 30…
Tag: 2fa
Twitter fined $150M after using 2FA phone numbers for marketing
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have ordered Twitter to pay a $150M penalty for using…
World Password Day: Brushing up on the basics
World Password Day is today, reminding us of the value of solid passwords, and good password practices generally. There are awareness…
Four key cybersecurity practices during geopolitical upheaval
Russia’s continued invasion of Ukraine has altered the landscape of cybersecurity threats facing organizations both near and far from the physical…
Ransomware gang hits 49ers’ network before Super Bowl kick off
The San Francisco 49ers has confirmed that it has been hit by a ransomware attack. The announcement came just hours before…
Microsoft: Slow MFA adoption presents “dangerous mismatch” in security
Multi-factor authentication (MFA)has been around for many years now, but few enterprises have fully embraced it. In fact, according to Microsoft’s…
Intercepting 2FA: Over 1200 man-in-the-middle phishing toolkits detected
Two-factor authentication (2FA) has been around for a while now and for the majority of tech users in the US and…
Police forces pipe 225 million pwned passwords into ‘Have I Been Pwned?’
On his blog, Troy Hunt has announced a major milestone in the ‘Have I Been Pwned?’ project, thanks to the contributions…
Click “OK” to defeat MFA
Researchers have discovered that Nobelium—the threat actor behind the infamous SolarWinds supply-chain attack, the Sunburst backdoor, TEARDROP malware, GoldMax malware, and…
Have you downloaded that Android malware from the Play Store lately?
This post has been updated to include the Malwarebytes detection for these Android apps. Security researchers have discovered banking Trojan apps…