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Twitter is planning a future update that will allow accounts enabled with two-factor authentication to use security keys as the only authentication method, the company said on Monday. At present, you can use a security key to sign in to your Twitter account, but you need to have another 2FA method — like an authenticator app or SMS codes — enabled as backup.
While authentication apps like Google Authenticator or Authy are more secure than using SMS codes for 2FA, security keys — physical keys that connect to your computer using USB or Bluetooth — are the most secure way to protect an account online. Users don’t have to type in a code that could be intercepted by a malicious third party.
You connect the key, your browser issues a challenge, then the key cryptographically signs the challenge and verifies your identity. Another benefit of using a security key: users don’t have to give Twitter any additional personal information, such as a telephone number, to be able to log in to their accounts. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/topic/securite-pc-et-internet
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Mit WhatsApp Business soll es in Zukunft eine WhatsApp-Version speziell für Unternehmen geben. Bei einer im Play Store aufgetauchten Version davon handelt es sich allerdings um eine Fälschung. Entwickler mit unlauteren Absichten haben im Play Store eine WhatsApp-Version veröffentlicht, die den Namen "Whatsapp Business" trägt. Dabei handelt es sich aber mitnichten um die angekündigte Unternehmens-Version von WhatsApp, sondern schlicht im eine Fälschung, die gutgläubige Nutzer zur Installation verleiten soll. Auffällig sind sowohl der Firmennamen, unter dem die App angeboten wird ("Whasp. Business Inc.") als auch die Schreibweise von WhatsApp mit kleinem a. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
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A new social media network named Mastodon popped up a few months ago and is designed to deliver a decentralised, open-source experience, but its this unique structure that may make its members vulnerable to cyber-attacks.
Malwarebyte's researcher Zammis Clark blogged that the decentralised nature of the site's construction, which he said helps eliminate ads, a primary selling point for users, also leaves the social network open to hackers. The site is very different from Facebook, Twitter and other networks.
Instead of being hosted by a corporate entity on its server system Mastodon members can set up their own server if they wish, called in “instance” by the Mastodon community, and then have people join Mastodon through that server. But here is where the problem arises.
Each person's “instance” receives a special domain name, for example mastodon.instance1, and anyone registering on that instance would receive a username like johnsmith.mastodon.instance1.
Where things go awry, Clark said, is the usernames can be replicated across all the "instances", so on mastodon.instance2 there could be a johnsmith.mastodon.instance2. This creates a situation where there are no verified accounts.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet
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A new piece of malware is making the rounds on Facebook, infecting users after luring them in with a link to a salacious video.
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We don't lump Twitter in the same privacy bracket as, say, Facebook. But like any social network, Twitter is vulnerable to oversharing, data leakage and unintended consequences. We take a look at T...
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Kaspersky Lab says smaller firms are bigger targets to hackers than they believe.
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Impermium, a cybersecurity startup that was backed by top funds like Accel and Greylock, is joining Google. They had raised $9 million in funding from..
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Mit einer kostenlosen Version eines beliebten SEO-Plugins für WordPress versuchen Spammer, Administratoren zu ködern. Das Plugin entpuppt sich als Malware, dass eine Hintertür im Server öffnet und Besucher der Seite infiziert.
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Security-SuperGAU für alle Nutzer von iPhones und iPads: Experten haben eine Lücke in iOS-Apps entdeckt, die es erlaubt, die komplette Kommunikation über fremde Server umzuleiten. Tausende Apps sollen betroffen sein. Über HTTP Request Hijacking sollen sich Hacker in iOS-Apps einschleichen und so den Datentraffic über eigene Server umleiten können. Nach erfolgreichem Angriff soll die Umleitung dann permanent aktiv sein. ===> Einzige Abhilfe schafft ein Update oder eine Neuinstallation der App. <===
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Twitter users are turning to the long-established federated community system known as Mastodon as the Musk era brings chaos to the 'bird site' social network. But how can you best secure a Mastodon account?
As even more employees leave Twitter following Elon Musk's 48 hours to quit ultimatum, and previously banned accounts return, the social network could be facing it's most perilous weeks since going into private ownership. For many Twitter users, the escape route to another network is coming via Mastodon. The Twitter infosec community is already establishing a healthy Mastodon presence, but many non-infosec users are asking how secure the federated community network is.
Is Mastodon a secure social network? Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/topic/social-media-and-its-influence/?&tag=Mastodon https://www.scoop.it/topic/securite-pc-et-internet/?&tag=Mastodon
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Twitter a franchi une étape importante pour renforcer la protection des comptes avec des clés d’authentification. Jusqu’à présent, il était possible d’associer une clé par compte. Désormais, le réseau social vient d’annoncer que l’on peut désormais en associer plusieurs.
Les clés de sécurité sont particulièrement utiles pour l'authentification à deux facteurs, car on peut les lier à un site ou un service particulier. Cela protège contre les attaques par phishing contre lesquelles les mots de passe ne sont pas suffisants. On les oublie, ils ne sont pas assez robustes, on peut se les faire subtiliser. L'authentification à deux facteurs associe souvent un mot de passe à une autre étape de connexion : un code généré par une application d'authentification ou envoyé par SMS, par exemple, ou une clé de sécurité physique que l’on connecte à un ordinateur portable ou à un smartphone. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/topic/securite-pc-et-internet https://www.scoop.it/topic/social-media-and-its-influence
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Kriminelle versenden derzeit vermehrt E-Mails, die angeblich von WhatsApp stammen. Den Empfängern wird darin vorgegaukelt, ihr Konto für den Messenger-Dienst werde bald ablaufen. In der E-Mail werden die Opfer unter Druck gesetzt und aufgefordert, eine Zahlung zu leisten, damit das WhatsApp-Konto bestehen bleibt. Es handelt sich hierbei um eine sogenannte Phishing-Attacke, mit der die Betrüger an persönliche Daten ihrer Opfer gelangen wollen.
Aktuelle Berichte zu der betrügerischen E-Mail stammen von Internetseiten wie Netzwelt, aber auch die österreichische Seite Mimikama berichtete schon vor einer Weile davon. Wir erklären Ihnen, wie Sie sich vor dem Phishing-Angriff schützen können. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/social-media-and-its-influence/?&tag=WhatsApp
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Twitter’s been combatting harassment for years. The latest effort: quelling its horde of anonymous, hostile egg accounts. But for many users, Twitter’s abuse problem has long since undermined its value as a platform for creative communication. That’s what makes Mastodon—a free, open-source, and increasingly popular six-month-old Twitter alternative—so intriguing.
Mastodon has created a diverse yet welcoming online environment by doing exactly what Twitter won’t: letting its community make the rules. The platform consists of various user-created networks, called instances, each of which determines its own laws. One instance could ban sexist jokes and Nazi logos, while another might practice radically free speech. (In this way, Mastodon is not unlike a network of discretely moderated message boards crossed with a Tweetdeck-like interface.) Users choose for themselves which instance they want to join and select from a host of privacy and anti-harassment settings. Oh, and the character limit is 500, not 140. In essence, Mastodon is an experiment in whether individually moderated communities can make a social network like Twitter more civil. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/social-media-and-its-influence/?&tag=Mastodon
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In April of this year, we registered some mass attacks on Facebook users in Russia. As a result, many Russian-speaking users of the social network fell victim. The attackers use a compromised Facebook account to post a link to an adult video that is supposedly on the popular YouTube service. In order to attract potential victims, “likes” are added from the account holder’s list of friends. The fraudsters rely on the user or their friends being curious and those who would like to watch an “18+” video. We strongly recommend not clicking such links and not installing suspicious browser extensions. It’s also worth checking if any suspicious extensions have already been installed. If any are discovered, they should be immediately removed via the browser settings, and the passwords for sites that are visited most often, especially online banking, should be changed. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/social-media-and-its-influence/?tag=Cybersecurity
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Wieder legt ein Facebook-Trojaner die Nutzer herein. Ein Klick auf den falschen Link und man wird zum Spammer.
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Twitter this week released an open source tool that can be used by software developers to detect various types of anomalies. Twitter has been using the tool, called AnomalyDetection, to detect anomalies on its platform.
Anomalies might occur on Twitter when, say, there is a breaking news story, or the final episode of a cult TV show airs.
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Twitter has announced two changes aimed at helping protect user accounts and restore access to them.
The company said that they are aware...
"To protect your account in this scenario we built a system that analyzes login attempts on your account - by looking at things like location, device being used and login history - and identifies suspicious behavior," they shared.
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Facebook scammers are trying to trick users into liking their pages by promising them a BMW 435i. This is just the latest in a long series of scams ab...
Security researcher Egor Homakov has discovered a Twitter vulnerability which allows apps to send DMs without requiring explicit user permission. TNW has verified the findings and can ...
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A daring hack and heist targeting online Bitcoin wallet service Inputs.io has resulted in the theft of 4,100 Bitcoins (currently over $1.3 m... If there’s one thing that this incident does demonstrate, is that anyone can make all sorts of inaccurate or blatantly false claims online, and that it’s not a good idea to keep your money with someone whose identity you don’t even know.
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Mastodon: Spamwelle zeigt Schwächen auf und weckt Sorge vor schlimmerer Methode
Seit Tagen klagen einige User auf Mastodon über eine Spamwelle. Der liegen automatisierte Angriffe auf unzureichend geschützte Teile des Fediverse zugrunde.
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