The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a Digital Authentication Guideline draft proposing that all services abandon SMS-based two-factor authentication and use tokens and software cryptographic authenticators. Because messages can be redirected to a VoIP service and not an actual mobile number, NIST believes SMS-enabled two-factor authentication is vulnerable to attacks. A […]
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Google knows 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 sends the prompt each time you want to log into your account, and you simply tap “Yes” to confirm that you are the one signing […]
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