Twitter’s new credentials handling scheme is called Digits, and it’s hoping that mobile app developers use it to enable their users to sign in with their phone numbers as identifiers, along with one-time passwords SMSed to the phones. 
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Google goes beyond two-step verification with new USB Security Key
Google’s adding support for a physical USB second factor that will first verify the login site as being a true Google website, not a fake site pretending to be Google, before it hands over a cryptographic signature. 
Reminder: iCloud’s going to demand app-specific passwords from third-party apps
Yes, your third-party calendar, mail and contacts apps that don’t support Apple’s new two-factor authentication system are going to turn 10 toes up on your iThings. You’ll need app-specific passwords to get at the cloud data. 
Kim Kardashian, Vanessa Hudgens, et al. targeted in latest naked celebrity photo leak
Early on Saturday morning, Celebgate flooded the same sites as it did three weeks ago – 4Chan and Reddit, among others – as cyber crooks again posted nude celebrity photos, despite the scuffle of threatened lawsuits and attention from the FBI.
Apple adds two-step verification for iCloud, effective immediately
Apple has listened, and extended its two-step verification system to iCloud. It’s a great start…but does it go far enough? 
Tim Cook says Apple *does* care about iCloud Security. But is that enough? [POLL]
Tim Cook told the WSJ that, yes Apple *does* care about iCloud security, and will take steps to make it more secure. Really?