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Google Cybersecurity Action Team Threat Horizons Report #8 Is Out! [Medium Backup]

Security Boulevard

This is my completely informal, uncertified, unreviewed and otherwise completely unofficial blog inspired by my reading of our eighth Threat Horizons Report ( full version ) that we just released ( the official blog for #1 report , my unofficial blogs for #2 , #3 , #4 , #5 , #6 and #7 ).

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Google to start automatically enrolling users in two-step verification “soon”

Malwarebytes

The Google blog cites the security check-up page, but that simply lists: Devices which are signed in Recent security activity from the last 28 days 2-step verification, in terms of sign-in prompt style, authenticator apps, phone numbers, and backup codes Gmail settings (specifically, emails which you’ve blocked).

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Taking on the Next Generation of Phishing Scams

Google Security

Posted by Daniel Margolis, Software Engineer, Google Account Security Team Every year, security technologies improve: browsers get better , encryption becomes ubiquitous on the Web , authentication becomes stronger. This blog will deep dive into the method of phishing and how it has evolved today.

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Beyond Passwords: 2FA, U2F and Google Advanced Protection

Troy Hunt

Oh - you're still laughing about the webcam pointed at the tokens from earlier, so here's another one complete with instructions on how to set it up and even OCR the digits on the token : Password and U2F: This is where I want to focus on the remainder of this blog because it solves all the problems raised above with the other approaches.

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