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Coinbase hack sees thousands of users’ accounts drained

04

Oct

2021

Coinbase has sent out breach notification letters to over 6000 users admitting they might have lost funds in a months-long campaign against the cryptocurrency exchange. In the letter, the company said attackers took advantage of a flaw in Coinbase’ two-factor authentication (2FA) mechanism to carry out several assaults between March and May 20, 2021. “As […]

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GitHub Encourages Users to Adopt Two-Factor Authentication

19

Aug

2021

The Microsoft-owned hosting service has had support for 2FA for eight years, and is now pushing for a wider use of the feature after it stopped accepting account passwords for authenticating Git operations. Initially announced in July 2020 and in effect starting August 13, 2021, the change requires the use of token-based authentication (personal access […]

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Twitter Enables Use of Security Keys as Sole Two-Factor Authentication Method

01

Jul

2021

“Security keys offer the strongest protection for your Twitter account because they have built-in protections to ensure that even if a key is used on a phishing site, the information shared can’t be used to access your account,” Twitter explains. Security keys rely on FIDO and WebAuthn security standards to ensure protection against account compromise […]

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