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This week’s Reddit breach shows company’s security is (still) woefully inadequate

Getty Images reader comments 21 with 0 posters participating Share this story Popular discussion website Reddit proved this week that its security still isn’t up to snuff when it disclosed yet another security breach that was the result of an attack that successfully phished an employee’s login credentials. In a post published Thursday, Reddit Chief… Read More »

The number of companies caught up in the Twilio hack keeps growing

Getty Images reader comments 90 with 56 posters participating Share this story The fallout from this month’s breach of security provider Twilio keeps coming. Three new companies—authentication service Authy, password manager LastPass, and food delivery service DoorDash—said in recent days that the Twilio compromise led to them being hacked. The three companies join authentication service… Read More »

Phishers who breached Twilio and fooled Cloudflare could easily get you, too

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) At least two security-sensitive companies—Twilio and Cloudflare—were targeted in a phishing attack by an advanced threat actor who had possession of home phone numbers of not just employees but employees’ family members as well. In the case of Twilio, a San Francisco-based provider of two-factor authentication and communication services, the unknown… Read More »