How Hackers Reportedly Side-Stepped Google’s Two-Factor Authentication

Michael Trotter-Lawson
Nov 2, 2014
1 min read

This is a great article that exposes the weaknesses associated with cell phones and their role in multi-factor authentication deployments. This also adds credence the value of physical tokens such as those associated with the FIDO standard from Yubico.

http://gizmodo.com/how-hackers-reportedly-side-stepped-gmails-two-factor-a-1653631338

#FIDO #Google #cellphones #yubico #twofactorauthentication

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