switch to modern authentication – sms as second factor is insecure

not only since twitter ceo jack dorsey was a victim with activated additional sms authentication for it’s account – now twitter disabled “temporarily” the ability to tweet via sms

…that phone numbers and sms’s were not designed to be used as two-factor authentication systems, as they are insecure.

Fabio Assolini, Senior Security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab, TechRadar Middle East

sim swapping is a technique of porting the same number to a new sim card of someone else, instead use features like oauth (already developed in 2006) – modern uem solutions ot casb take care about this with checking additional properties, like manged apps or encrypted devices > further secure alternatives below

multi-factor authentication

google knows

“google knows everything” – bots basically crawl the internet to fill a database, it’s about content, statistics, locations and people’s gender, age, a lot more …

websites use google analytics to optimize their page – ip, browser, os, etc. is reported to google, no personal information transfered, but with this characteristics a template could created – example: when login a forum, specialized to financial advices, you could get extra credit offers or you searched for tenancy law, new flat offerings aren’t displayed – technical feature like ip masking are as save as google take care about their responsibility

… they have the almost ability to predict the future, like:

larry page – google founder, alphabet ceo, mentioned “we are no longer living in a mobile-first world, we are in a mobile-only world.” – mobile changed already from second to first screen in web usage

sundar pichai – google ceo, said ai is “one of the most important things that humanity is working on. It’s more profound than, I don’t know, electricity or fire,” – ai (artifical intelligence) already found a way in today’s smartphones, it is the biggest tech trend of 2018

about your privacy in google hands – you can have a look what google knows about you at history.google.com/history or display saved passwords – facebook also knows o.O