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Google account hacks dropped by half after pushing two-step authentication by default

The Verge

That’s the top-line finding four months into Google’s initiative to enroll users in two-factor authentication by default, detailed in a blog post to coincide with Safer Internet Day on February 8th. Although the number of web services supporting two-factor authentication has grown steadily, consumer adoption still remains low.

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Google is about to turn on two-factor authentication by default for millions of users

The Verge

In May, Google announced plans to enable two-factor authentication (or two-step verification as it’s referring to the setup) by default to enable more security for many accounts. In 2018, Google said that only 10 percent of its active accounts were using two-factor authentication. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Image: Google.

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IDF 2013: Enhancing OpenStack with Intel Technologies

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 session EDCS003, titled “Enhancing OpenStack with Intel Technologies for Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud.” Next, Intel talks about how they have worked to expose hardware features into OpenStack. IDF 2013: Enhancing OpenStack with Intel Technologies.

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Security for Big Data Designs: Examining best practices with security architect Eddie Garcia

CTOvision

Authentication is addressed for the perimeter security requirements. Active Directory and Kerberos are the authentication staples within the enterprise, allowing all users to be authenticated. Their security story is one that began long ago, but was accelerated by Intel in 2013, when Intel established Project Rhino.

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How Microsoft brought Gears Tactics to the Xbox Series X and S

The Verge

We wanted to really make it authentic for the PC strategy gamer first and foremost, but we also knew eventually we would take our time and bring it to console in a way that feels really native on the console,” Bielman says, citing the game’s controls as the most important thing to get right. There’s just so much hardware on PC.”.

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DARPA Official: Human-Robot Teams Key to Disaster Response

CTOvision

Launched in October 2012, the DARPA Robotics Challenge has held two of three competitions -– a virtual event in June 2013 and a live two-day event held Dec. The plan is to make the tasks more difficult and more authentic than they were in the trials, he said. “My WASHINGTON, Feb. 20-21 at the Homestead-Miami Speedway in Florida.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security.