Phishing attackers have failed to compromise a single employee account at Google since the company mandated authentication using U2F hardware tokens in early 2017. That’s the remarkable claim made to security writer Brian Krebs.
Monthly Archives: July 2018
Why your website is officially ‘not secure’ from today
Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure” starting on Tuesday – an important milestone on the road to HTTPS everywhere.
Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter make leaving easier
The Data Transfer Project will allow users to move their data easily between participating services.
Mobile security – how to have your cake and eat it [PODCAST]
Catch up with Day 5 of our Security SOS Week – here’s the fifth and final episode of our week-long online security summit.
DOJ to publicly disclose election tampering schemes
Under a new policy, US organizations and individuals will be told if they’re the target of foreign operations trying to influence elections.
WhatsApp limits message forwarding in response to lynchings
New restrictions in the WhatsApp messaging app are designed to combat a spate of mob lynchings.
Hackers hold 80,000 healthcare records to ransom
CarePartners said its forensic investigation identified 1500 affected records – the hackers say they took 80,000.
Roblox says hacker injected code that led to avatars’ gang rape
Roblox was moving some older, user-generated games to a newer, more secure system when the attack took place, it says.
Basic email blunder exposed possible victims of child sexual abuse
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse sent out a mass emailing in which a staffer mistakenly used “To” instead of “Bcc”.
Privacy – can you have too much of a good thing? [PODCAST]
Catch up with Day 4 of our Security SOS Week – here’s the fourth episode of our week-long online security summit.