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Google Plans to Automatically Enroll Users In Two-Factor Authentication Soon Share Filed to:access control Gif: Google Security experts have been banging the drum about password managers and enabling two-factor authentication for what seems like an eternity. Probably because year after year, hordes of you keep using “123456″ and “password” to secure your shit online. Well, Google’s not having it anymore. So long as you provide a secondary email or phone number, the company will soon start automatically enabling 2FA on your Google Accounts. The change isn’t so much an announcement...

In the future, Google 2FA (two-factor authentication) protocols will no longer be optional. By now, most people are probably using 2FA with their Google accounts anyway, but anyone who isn’t will eventually need to change that. Far off in the future, Google hopes passwords won’t be needed at all. Today is World Password Day. We have a poll running related to this annual reminder that strong passwords and security measures for your online life are not something you should take lightly. We also have some news from Google related to its own security protocols. According to  PC World, it wil...

By 2013, the idea had really caught on and Intel ran with it, making the first Thursday in May the official World Password Day. In 2021, World Password Day falls on May 6, but is it still relevant in its current form? From phishing scams to distributed denial-of-service attacks, malware to spyware, the security landscape is a lot more complex than it was back in 2005, or even 2013. Most individuals today have so many different online accounts that to devise and remember a unique and complex password for each one is near impossible. It's why so many of us now rely on authenticator apps and dig...

World Password Day advice, your car’s infotainment system may be a privacy risk, a new hacker discovered and more security updates. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday, May 5 I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com.   Tomorrow is World Password Day. It’s to remind people how to pick safer passwords, and how to protect them. Regular listeners may recall that Dinah Davis and I talked about this on the Week In Review show. Briefly, our advice boils down to this: Use a password manager so you don’t have to remember passwords, use mul...

Published: May 5th, 2021 World Password Day advice, your car’s infotainment system may be a privacy risk, a new hacker discovered and more security updates. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday, May 5 I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com.   Tomorrow is World Password Day. It’s to remind people how to pick safer passwords, and how to protect them. Regular listeners may recall that Dinah Davis and I talked about this on the Week In Review show. Briefly, our advice boils down to this: Use a password manager so you don’t have to r...