Weekly Threat Report 26th January 2018

Two-factor authentication usage

Open source reports quote remarks made by a Google software engineer who revealed at a recent security conference that fewer than 10 per cent of Gmail users enabled Two-Factor Authentication (2FA). 

The benefit of 2FA is that it provides an extra layer of security.  The user has to provide standard login details of a password and username and also something that only that user has access to.  This might be a physical token, keyfob device,…

Link: Weekly Threat Report 26th January 2018
Source: NCSC Reports