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  • A visit to the fuckup farm U.S. Government security keys vulnerable to hackers, for the dumbest imaginable reason Séamus Bellamy
  • ato Weekend SIM-swapping blitz targets US cryptocurrency holders Cory Doctorow
  • stop the madness It's time to stop asking users for periodic password changes Ken Snider
  • basic account hygiene Research shows that 2FA and other basic measures are incredibly effective at preventing account hijacking Cory Doctorow
  • sim hijacking DOJ accuses Verizon and AT&T employees of participating in SIM-swap identity theft crimes Cory Doctorow
  • ubikey Security keys are "transformative" and "revolutionary" for information security Cory Doctorow
  • poisoning the well Facebook forces you to expose your phone number to the whole world in order to turn on two-factor authentication Cory Doctorow
  • number porting Comcast assigned every mobile customer the same unchangeable PIN to protect against SIM hijack attacks: 0000 Cory Doctorow
  • 2fa SMS text two-factor authentication "bypassed at scale" Rob Beschizza
  • Voxox A leaky database of SMS messages is a reminder that SMS is really, really insecure Cory Doctorow
  • delete your account Facebook's been caught using their customers' 2FA information to spam them with text ads Séamus Bellamy
  • port out scams Fraudsters offers thousands to low-waged telco employees for help with SIM Swap scams Cory Doctorow
  • port out scam Your phone company's shitty security is all that's standing between you and total digital destruction Cory Doctorow
  • mitm How hackers can steal your 2FA email account by getting you to sign up for another website Cory Doctorow
  • infosec pompeii Mobile phone security's been busted for years, and now 2-factor auth is busted too Cory Doctorow
  • aqenbpuu At least twice, Sean Spicer has accidentally tweeted the password to his official White House spokesman Twitter account Cory Doctorow
  • perimeters What we can learn from 2016: the year of the security breach Cory Doctorow
  • something you have 12 days of two-factor authentication: this Xmas, give yourself the gift of opsec Cory Doctorow
  • human factors How governments and cyber-militias attack civil society groups, and what they can do about it Cory Doctorow
  • apt Elaborate spear-phishing attempt against global Iranian and free speech activists, including an EFF staffer Cory Doctorow
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