Google to start automatically enrolling users in two-step verification “soon”

If you use a Google account, it may soon be mandatory to sign up to Googles two-step verification program. As recently as 2017, a tiny amount of GMail users made use of its two-step options. Maybe the uptake is still slow, and Google has decided enough is enough. With so much valuable data stuffe...

Researcher logs into Trump’s Twitter with password MAGA2020

By Waqas The Dutch researcher Victor Gevers guessed the password as MAGA2020 and noticed Trump did not use two-step verification on his Twitter account. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Researcher logs into Trumps Twitter with password MAGA2020...

8 ways to improve security on smart home devices

Every so often, a news story breaks that hackers have made their way into a smart home device and stolen personal data. Or that vulnerabilities in smart tech have been discovered that allow their producers or other cybercriminals to spy on customers. We've seen it play out over and over with smar...

Android's Built-in Security Key Now Works With iOS Devices For Secure Login

In April this year, a software update from Google overnight turned all Android phones, running Android 7.0 Nougat and up, into a FIDO-certified hardware security key as part of a push to encourage two-step verification. The feature made it possible for users to confirm their identity when logging...

Android's Built-in Security Key Now Works With iOS Devices For Secure Login

In April this year, a software update from Google overnight turned all Android phones, running Android 7.0 Nougat and up, into a FIDO-certified hardware security key as part of a push to encourage two-step verification. The feature made it possible for users to confirm their identity when logging...

Top 10 security steps in Microsoft 365 that political campaigns can take today

The increasing frequency of cyberattacks make clear that more must be done to protect key democratic institutions from cyber-enabled interference. Withjust a fewweeks left before theU.S.midtermelections and early voting under way,campaignsmust stay vigilant in protecting against cyberattacks to...

Google Cracks Down on Malicious Chrome Extensions in Major Update

Google on Monday announced major changes to its Chrome Web Store as the company tries to ax the malicious extensions that have continuously popped up on its platform over the years. The array of security improvements include a stricter extension review process, new code-readability requirements...

Speaking at TEDx

I was privileged enough to be invited to speak at a TEDx event in Dornbirn, Austria. I speak at 2-3 events per week, with audiences from 25-2500 people, so why did this one make me nervous? I don’t get nervous before speaking in public. Lots of practice and plenty of material to work with usually...

JVN#27137002: IIJ SmartKey App for Android vulnerable to authentication bypass

IIJ SmartKey App for Android provided by Internet Initiative Japan Inc. is an application that enables two-step authentication two-factor authentication for a website from an Android device. IIJ SmartKey App for Android contains an authentication bypass vulnerability CWE-287. Impact An attacker m...

Timely Password-Change Call from Twitter, as Bugs Hit WebEx and GPON routers

The cyber security news cycle is always active, so to help you stay in the loop here’s a selection of incidents that caught our attention over the past week or so involving, among others, Twitter, Cisco and GPON routers. Twitter picks a good day for password-change call As “change your password”...

TeleShadow v2 - Advanced Telegram Desktop Session Hijacker!

Advanced Telegram Desktop Session Hijacker! Stealing desktop telegrams has never been so easy ! Set the email and sender details of the sender and recipient and send it to the victim after compiling. How do I use the session file? Delete everything inside folder at...

TeleShadow - Telegram Desktop Session Stealer (Windows)

Stealing desktop telegrams has never been so easy ! Set the email and sender details of the sender and recipient and send it to the victim after compiling. How do I use the session file? Delete everything inside folder at "C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Roaming\Telegram Desktop\tdata" Then Replace...

Is Your Mobile Carrier Your Weakest Link?

More online services than ever now offer two-step authentication -- requiring customers to complete a login using their phone or other mobile device after supplying a username and password. But with so many services relying on your mobile for that second factor, there has never been more riding o...

Awesome! WhatsApp Now Lets You Send Files of Any Format

Have you ever felt like wishing of sending any type of file immediately to your friends and office colleagues on WhatsApp directly, instead of just contacts, images or documents? Well, now you can… The latest version of WhatsApp for Android and iOS now allows users to send and receive any type of...

Eternal blue-advanced version struck--the eternal stone integrated 7 vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In WannaCry crazy spread towards the end of last week three 5.17 security researcher Miroslav Stampar（the Government of Croatia CERT members, Sqlmap one of the creators of in his build of SMB honeypot, the discovery of new worms is through SMB vulnerability propagation. Researcher Stampar honeypo...

Patched Flaw in Bosch Diagnostic Dongle Allowed Researchers to Shut Off Engine

Two vulnerabilities were identified in Bosch’s Drivelog Connect OBD-II dongle and smartphone app that allowed researchers to shut off the engine of a vehicle. One of the issues was patched via server-side fix, Bosch said in an April 13 statement, while the other in the dongle itself will be handl...

Google Adds Security Key Enforcement to G Suite Apps

Google on Wednesday pumped more life into the use of physical keys as a second form of authentication when it added Security Key enforcement support to G Suite. Admins inside enterprises managing deployments of the suite of cloud-based productivity apps, formerly known as Google Apps, can now...

WhatsApp Adds​ ​2-Step Verification Passcode — Enable this Security Feature

WhatsApp has introduced a new security feature that fixes a loophole in the popular messaging platform, which if exploited, could allow an attacker to hijack victim's account with just knowing the victim's phone number and some hacking skills. The attack does not exploit any vulnerability in...

Dropbox Forces Password Reset for Older Users

Online storage service Dropbox began notifying users over the weekend that if they haven’t updated their password since 2012, they’ll be prompted to update it the next time they log into their account. The company claims the move is “purely a preventative measure” and stressed that there’s no pro...

Google makes 2-Factor Authentication a lot Easier and Faster

When it comes to data breaches of major online services like LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter and VK.com, it's two-factor authentication that could save you from being hacked. Two-factor authentication or 2-step verification is an effective way to secure online accounts, but many users avoid enabling t...