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"Pwned", the Book, is Finally Here!

Troy Hunt

which I've now included in this book 😊 These are the stories behind the stories and finally, the book about it all is here: I announced the book back in April last year after Rob, Charlotte and I had already invested a heap of effort before releasing a preview in October. This book has it all. Pat Phelan.

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Facebook Is Using Your Two-Factor Authentication Phone Number to Target Advertising

Schneier on Security

It is also using contact information you handed over for security purposes and contact information you didn't hand over at all, but that was collected from other people's contact books, a hidden layer of details Facebook has about you that I've come to call "shadow contact information." Here's the research paper.

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Booking.com Phishers May Leave You With Reservations

Krebs on Security

KrebsOnSecurity last week heard from a reader whose close friend received a targeted phishing message within the Booking mobile app just minutes after making a reservation at a California. The phishing message our reader’s friend received after making a reservation at booking.com in late October.

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New Book Announcement: Click Here to Kill Everybody

Schneier on Security

I am pleased to announce the publication of my latest book: Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World. As automation, autonomy, and physical agency become more prevalent, the trade-offs we made for things like authentication, patching, and supply chain security no longer make any sense.

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New Book Coming in September: "Click Here to Kill Everybody"

Schneier on Security

My next book is still on track for a September 2018 publication. Authentication and Identification are Getting Harder 6. It also needs to telegraph: "everyone needs to read this book." In the book I need a word for the Internet plus the things connected to it plus all the data and processing in the cloud.

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GUEST ESSAY: The case for shifting to ‘personal authentication’ as the future of identity

The Last Watchdog

I currently have over 450 accounts that use passwords combined with a variety of two-factor authentication methods. Related: How the Fido Alliance enables password-less authentication. Only a dozen or so of my accounts get authenticated via self-hosted services. the address book web app). Sharing protocols.

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MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years

Krebs on Security

MasterCard.com relies on five shared Domain Name System (DNS) servers at the Internet infrastructure provider Akamai [DNS acts as a kind of Internet phone book, by translating website names to numeric Internet addresses that are easier for computers to manage]. But the researcher said he didn’t attempt to do any of that.

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