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June 7, 2017 02:32 am GMT
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The leaked NSA report shows 2-factor authentication has a critical weakness: You
So you've created a strong password, kept an eye out for sketchy links, and enabled two-factor authentication — what could possibly go wrong?
Well, it turns out the answer is "you."
As the leaked NSA report on Russian efforts to hack the computers of U.S. election officials before the 2016 presidential election demonstrates, we are all often our own biggest security weakness. The document, published by The Intercept, shows that hackers found a way around the protections offered by two-factor authentication that is striking in its simplicity: They asked the targets for their verification codes. Read more...
More about Russia, Nsa, Cybersecurity, Hackers, and Election 2016Original Link: http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/mashable/tech/~3/j3jzyOLejqc/
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