Two million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen
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Re: Two million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen
#2While technically accurate, the headline seems to allude to direct breaches of Facebook, Gmail, and Twitter.
Re: Two million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen
#357.06% of the passwords stolen were for the Facebook domain. Sigh!
Re: Two million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen
#4Misleading headline, makes it seem like these guys were hacked on their servers. When the reality is people spread a virus and passwords were logged from individual machines. No fault from Google or Twitter.
Re: Two million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen
#5While technically accurate, the headline seems to allude to direct breaches of Facebook, Gmail, and Twitter.
Not even technically accurate. The article says that only 400k of the 2 million stolen passwords were from FB/GOOG/TWTR.
Re: Two million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen
#6While technically accurate, the headline seems to allude to direct breaches of Facebook, Gmail, and Twitter.
Agreed. And considering the low probability of such a breach, my next assumption was some password storage service being breached.
The real story: Personal computers were infected, passwords were keylogged. yawn
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#7What platform(s) was the keylogger written for and how was it spread?
Re: Two million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen
#82 Factor Authentication, 2 Factor Authentication, 2 Factor Authentication!
I've had 2 factor authentication enabled on my gmail account for over a year now, and once you get past the initial setup phase, it's really not that inconvenient.
I have even been able to train my parents to use 2 factor auth, I just need to get them using a password manager now...
Re: Two million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen
#92 Factor Authentication, 2 Factor Authentication, 2 Factor Authentication! I've had 2 factor authentication enabled on my gmail account for over a year now, and once you get past the initial setup phase, it's really not that inconvenient. I have even been able to train my parents to use 2 factor auth, I just need to get them using a password manager now...
I agree.
However for people just not interested in tech stuff, teaching them how to use 2 factor authentication is pretty hard. I tried writing out the tutorial for friends but realized it's pretty daunting for regular users.
What if Google started charging people (only ones with credit card on file which means they are in place with necessary infrastructure) $5 a year for NOT using 2 factor authentication... I guess I can dream...
Re: Two million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen
#102 Factor Authentication, 2 Factor Authentication, 2 Factor Authentication! I've had 2 factor authentication enabled on my gmail account for over a year now, and once you get past the initial setup phase, it's really not that inconvenient. I have even been able to train my parents to use 2 factor auth, I just need to get them using a password manager now...
What happens if I'm i) outside the country, so no SMS for me, ii) outside cell tower coverage but with wifi (happens every day for me inside buildings), or I got my cellphone stolen for instance. How does 2fauth works in that case?
(Just wondering, as the above are the reasons I decided not to use it)