How Hackers bypassed Google’s Two-Factor Authentication

  • 2 November 2014
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“Anyone relying on two-factor authentication with a phone number who uses my company is vulnerable. It would take a determined attacker a day to get control of your number. All you’d notice was that your SIM stopped working. It would all be too late by the time you’d gotten a new one re-activated – and you’re still vulnerable.”
 
It is not that the two-step verification is a total failure, it really does make it difficult for hackers to cross this layer, but to be on the safe side, disable SMS for two-step verification and SMS for password resets. Instead use a two-step mobile app. It is necessary that you disable both, otherwise you are still vulnerable. And as Blakeman said, add a voice authorization code to your account and move all important accounts that allow password reset emails to a different address that does not contain your name.
 
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