Why US, Canadian, and EU Universities Choose Programmable Hardware OTP Tokens
Almost all universities and colleges in the US, Canada, and EU use two-factor authentication to protect their faculty and staff accounts. Quite often they choose in-app 2-factor authentication, which means that one-time passwords are generated on the users’ smartphones. Though, in this case, they face a few issues: Not everybody agrees to use their personal smartphones for corporate needs. Some people still use old models...
Reddit was hacked: how it happened, who the victims were, and why SMS authentication failed
Reddit was hacked. The attackers managed to extract logins, e-mail addresses, passwords (salted and hashed, fortunately), and even a complete list of private messages from users who joined the site before 2007. The hackers were also able to access the e-mail addresses and logins of all users who received the site’s newsletter in June 2018. The SMS authentication failed. The attackers were able to intercept SMS messages...
How to enable two-factor authentication on Reddit
Learn more about Protectimus Slim NFC security token or order one here: Protectimus Slim NFC The best 2FA token to protect your Reddit account! Ho set-up two-factor authentication on Reddit, first of all, log in your Reddit account and initiate the two-factor authentication setup. 1. Go to the “User Setting” page using the navigation menu in the right upper corner -> 2. Click “Privacy & Security” -> 3. Choose “Two-factor...
How to Protect Your Privacy on Facebook
Personal privacy protection became a popular topic in the last few months. This is especially related to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which has become active in May 2018 and the Cambridge Analytica fiasco. Facebook has reacted almost immediately and provided tools for protecting and viewing your personal information. In this article, we will talk about what information does Facebook collect about you, why is it...
Man In The Middle Attack Prevention And Detection
In the age of being dependent on contemporary technologies, the cybersecurity issues are as vital to pay attention to as never before. We leave a huge trace of our personal identity online. Not to mention an enormous digital trail we leave in social networks when posting photos with geolocation, reposting all news and thoughts we consider important, commenting on everything that we have an opinion about. We also use online banking...