Is a text message the only thing standing between a criminal & your money?
Time to level up.
✅Use an app (e.g. Google Authenticator)
✅Get some physical keys (e.g. #YubiKey)
If your provider doesn't offer it...
Threaten to take your biz elsewhere.
Time to level up.
✅Use an app (e.g. Google Authenticator)
✅Get some physical keys (e.g. #YubiKey)
If your provider doesn't offer it...
Threaten to take your biz elsewhere.
https://twitter.com/lorenzofb/status/1620878387840696320
2/ Once-upon-a-decade-plus-ago SMS authentication was the canonical security tip.
Two factor authentication is still *the recommendation* but the times change, better options are available, but lots of companies aren't keeping up.
Two factor authentication is still *the recommendation* but the times change, better options are available, but lots of companies aren't keeping up.
3/ Platforms & companies need to make more secure second factors the default for new account creation.
People need nudges.
And just making it a hard-to-do option means many, many fewer users take advantage.
People need nudges.
And just making it a hard-to-do option means many, many fewer users take advantage.
4/ Anecdotally, many of the companies that have been fastest to implement better two-factor by default.. are on the hook for account compromise.
It's the companies that barely feel pain when users are compromised that are lagging behind the rest.
It's the companies that barely feel pain when users are compromised that are lagging behind the rest.
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