13 August 2017

The post ‘Hackers Hijack Popular Chrome Extension to Inject Code into Web Developers’ Browsers’ published on August 3, 2017 by Graham CLULEY at the Tripwire blog ‘The State Of Security‘ gives another good reason for the use of Two Factor Authentication.

Since phishing emails become better and better it is not surprising that even professionals can be tricked.

Thus I can fully accept the developer’s answer ‘I stupidly fell for a phishing attack on my Google account.’ to the question ‘Any idea how this could have happened?’.

But I cannot understand why the Google account was not secured with Two Factor Authentication (TFA), in particular because Google’s Push Notification makes life with TFA really easy.

With TFA enabled, this cyber attack could have been prevented.

Have a great week, and activate TFA for your Google account.