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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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Social Engineering and Phishing

CTOvision

Social engineering is one of the most problematic attack techniques to combat. User education is most effective at stopping a social engineer. Users who are aware of the potential for social engineering attacks and learn to recognize them can use simple methods to thwart these attacks successfully. Stu Sjouwerman.

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The Generative Self-Sovereign Internet

Phil Windley

Summary: The self-sovereign internet, a secure overlay on the internet, provides the same capacity to produce change by numerous, unaffiliated and uncoordinated actors as the internet itself. This article explores the properties of the self-sovereign internet and makes the case that they justify its generativity claims.

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The future of the information economy is in flux as internet search industry enters new area

GeekWire

The integration of ChatGPT into Microsoft’s Bing search engine heralds a tectonic shift for consumers, publishers, and advertisers on the web. Historically, search engines distinguished between search results and sponsored or “featured” results (i.e., Brands and reputations will be built on providing genuine, authentic answers.

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What will stop AI from flooding the internet with fake images?

Vox

Online misinformation has existed since the dawn of the internet, and crudely photoshopped images fooled people long before generative AI became mainstream. One report by Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, predicted that as much as 90 percent of content on the internet could be created or edited by AI by 2026.

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Top 7 MFA Bypass Techniques and How to Defend Against Them

SecureWorld News

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a fundamental component of best practices for account security. Traditionally, this approach to authentication delivers a unique code to a user's email or phone, which is then inputted following the account password. SMS-based MFA MFA via SMS (i.e., However, MFA via SMS is not without its issues.

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Geek of the Week: Tech vet Dick Hardt searches for a better way to verify your ?internet identity?

GeekWire

Dick Hardt has often been “early to the new,” as he puts it: Microsoft Windows in 1986, neural networks in 1989, the internet in 1993, open source in 1995, and even Burning Man in 1999. “The internet does not have an identity layer,” said Hardt, our latest Geek of the Week. back in 2005.

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