account protection

The apparent ease with which SIM hijacking attacks are being perpetrated to get the targets’ second authentication factor for crucial accounts (online banking, …

The popularity of Google’s Password Checkup Chrome extension has spurred the company to build the technology into Google Account’s Password Manager and the Chrome …

As more U.S. consumers use digital platforms when engaging with insurance companies, new fraud challenges are likely to arise for insurance carriers, according to TransUnion …

From January 2019 through June 2019, LexisNexis Risk Solutions recorded 16.4 billion transactions, of which 277 million were human-initiated attacks, a 13% increase over the …

GitHub has started supporting the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) web standard, allowing users to use security keys for two-factor authentication with a wide variety of browsers …

Google is rolling out new security options for G Suite users and admins, aimed at alerting organizations about data exfiltration attempts on Google Drive and helping them …

Google has discovered that it has been storing some G Suite users’ passwords in clear text and is notifying G Suite administrators that it will force a password change …

Despite implementation bugs that might affect the security of physical security keys, they are the strongest protection against phishing currently available, Google maintains. …

Misconfigured Bluetooth pairing protocols in Google’s Titan Security Keys may allow attackers to communicate with users’ security key or with the device their key …

64% of people use the same password for some, or even all, of their online accounts, while only 21% use a different password for each account. These startling findings come …

The recovered compromised credentials and personally identifiable information (PII) as well as the identified trends in online security habits and the data criminals tend to …

Users of popular dating site OkCupid have been complaining of hackers taking over their account, locking them out by changing the associated email address and password, and …