{"id":25382,"date":"2019-05-24T17:37:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T21:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=25382"},"modified":"2019-05-24T17:37:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T21:37:38","slug":"how-effective-is-basic-account-hygiene-at-preventing-hijacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/24\/how-effective-is-basic-account-hygiene-at-preventing-hijacking\/","title":{"rendered":"How Effective Is Basic Account Hygiene at Preventing Hijacking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/security.googleblog.com\/2019\/05\/new-research-how-effective-is-basic.html\">Google<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GossiTheDog\/status\/1130098995190206464\">Kevin Beaumont<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/security.googleblog.com\/2019\/05\/new-research-how-effective-is-basic.html\"><p>We found that an SMS code sent to a recovery phone number helped block 100% of automated bots, 96% of bulk phishing attacks, and 76% of targeted attacks. On-device prompts, a more secure replacement for SMS, helped prevent 100% of automated bots, 99% of bulk phishing attacks and 90% of targeted attacks.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Given the security benefits of challenges, one might ask why we don&rsquo;t require them for all sign-ins. The answer is that challenges introduce additional friction and increase the risk of account lockout. In an experiment, 38% of users did not have access to their phone when challenged. Another 34% of users could not recall their secondary email address.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google (via Kevin Beaumont): We found that an SMS code sent to a recovery phone number helped block 100% of automated bots, 96% of bulk phishing attacks, and 76% of targeted attacks. On-device prompts, a more secure replacement for SMS, helped prevent 100% of automated bots, 99% of bulk phishing attacks and 90% of targeted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-05-24T21:37:40Z","apple_news_api_id":"3cff42dc-34f2-4685-af8d-a32f391b66c3","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-05-24T21:37:40Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/APP9C3DTyRoWvjaMvORtmww","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,48,1393,96],"class_list":["post-25382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-google","tag-security","tag-short-message-service-sms","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25383,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25382\/revisions\/25383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}