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Twitter’s Two-Factor Authentication Change ‘Doesn’t Make Sense’
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 15:34:33 +0000
The company will soon require users to pay for a Twitter Blue subscription to get sign-in codes via SMS. Security experts are baffled.
Read MoreTwitter’s Two-Factor Authentication Change ‘Doesn’t Make Sense’
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 15:34:33 +0000
The company will soon require users to pay for a Twitter Blue subscription to get sign-in codes via SMS. Security experts are baffled.
Read MoreHackers Ran Amok Inside GoDaddy for Nearly 3 Years
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0000
Plus: The FBI got (at least a little bit) hacked, an election-disruption firm gets exposed, Russia mulls allowing “patriotic hacking,” and more.
Read MoreUS Border Protection Is Finally Able to Check E-Passport Data
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:00:00 +0000
After 16 years, the agency has implemented the software to cryptographically verify digital passport data—and it’s already caught a dozen alleged fraudsters.
Read MoreCrypto Buyers Beware: 1 in 4 New Tokens of Any Value Is a Scam
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:00:00 +0000
And according to tracing firm Chainalysis, one very prolific scammer ran at least 264 of those scams in 2022 alone.
Read MoreThe East Palestine, Ohio Train Derailment Created a Perfect TikTok Storm
Credit to Author: Amanda Hoover| Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 21:38:40 +0000
The social media platform helped push the story into the mainstream while also fueling misinformation and conspiracy theories.
Read MoreUS Border Patrol Is Finally Able to Check E-Passport Data
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:00:00 +0000
After 16 years, the agency has implemented the software to cryptographically verify digital passport data—and it’s already caught a dozen alleged fraudsters.
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