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Security Basics Prove Highly Effective at Stopping Account Takeovers

New Google research on account takeovers found that basic account hygiene can defeat the vast majority of attacks.

Social Engineering, 2fa

Stack Overflow Updates Breach Advisory With More Details

Kudos to Stack Overflow, for promptly notifying users as soon as it identified a breach and posting an update with more details as it learns them.

Data Breaches, Incident Response

Code Repository Companies Pledge to Share Attack Data

Atlassian, GitHub, and GitLab pledged to continue the information sharing relationship they started while investigating the origins of the recent ransomware incident which affected BitBucket, GitHub, and GitLab users.

Data Breaches, Information Sharing

Attackers Are Hiding By Tampering With Encrypted Web Traffic

Attackers are increasing their use of "cipher stunting," a technique that randomizes their SSL/TLS signatures, to obscure the malicious web traffic and make it harder to detect.

TLS, Bot

Google Warns of Flaw in Some Titan Security Keys

A weakness in the Bluetooth pairing protocol in some Titan keys can leave them open to hijacking.

Google, 2fa