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Stop using your phone number to log in

Vox

Even things that those services might recommend as an added security measure — like text, SMS, or multi-factor authentication — can actually introduce more vulnerabilities. Enabling two-step or multi-factor authentication by default, which companies like Google and Amazon have done on some of their services, would stop these hijackings.

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CloudVelocity Announces $13M Funding, New Tools for AWS.

Data Center Knowledge

“We automate five sets of critical processes and extend authentication and other network services into the cloud, making the cloud a seamless extension of the data center. CloudVelocity detects an existing environment, discovering the constituent hosts and blueprinting system components and configuration. December 2006 (43).

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Behavioral Biometrics

ForAllSecure

So we include other telemetry that seeks to authenticate that the entity logging in is who they say they are. Without a basic ability to authenticate these characters, there’d be no drama, no romance, no tragedy. So that’s why you need multi factor authentication. Think about it. And important.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: How to set the Default Printer for All Users in.

Sean Daniel

As a test, I like to make sure it works for one user first, so let’s find a guinea pig and go from there: With the new Default Printer Policy selected, remove Authenticated Users from the Security filtering and place in the guinea pig user. Select Authenticated Users , and click Remove. ► 2006. (63). ► July. (2).

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Car Hacking 0x05

ForAllSecure

This is also risky, when he was arrested in 2006, the Prague Post reported that the thief had the code for 150 stolen cars still on his laptop, enough evidence to convict him. You know with modern vehicles, they're actually becoming like they're running on bluetooth, they're running the Android operating system. What's that?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking High-Tech Cars

ForAllSecure

One afternoon in the spring of 2006. NCC one warned that the Tesla Model three and model Y employ Bluetooth low energy based passive entry key systems and this could allow a link layer relay attack conclusively that defeats existing applications. A proximity authenticate, and CC by forwarding the data from a baseband to the link layer.

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