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Security News for the Week Ending Feb. 11, 2022

February 11, 2022 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

Google Decreased Account Takeovers by 50% by Mandating 2FA Late last year Google forced about a hundred fifty million users to start using multi-factor authentication. What results did they see? Account takeovers in that group were reduced by 50%. Google has previously said that only 10% of their users were using MFA. Now they are […]

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Legal, Privacy

Senate Reverses FCC Rule on ISP Privacy Requirements

March 29, 2017 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

Last year the FCC proposed a rule requiring Internet Providers to get your permission before selling your data. The rule was set to go into effect in April. The large ISPs – AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and others – didn’t like this rule since it affected their revenue. They said that Facebook and Google didn’t need […]

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