The
leaked NSA
report shows 2-factor authentication has a
critical weakness: You
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So you've created a
strong password, kept an eye out for
sketchy links, and enabled
two-factor authentication — what could possibly go wrong?
Well, it turns out the answer is "you."*
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As the
leaked NSA report on Russian efforts to hack the computers of U.S. election officials before the 2016 presidential election demonstrates, we are all often our own biggest security weakness. The document, published by
The Intercept,
shows that ******s found a way around the protections offered by two-factor
authentication that is striking in its simplicity: They asked the targets for their verification codes.*
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