{"id":962,"date":"2023-02-22T11:02:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T11:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tsfactory.com\/forums\/?p=962"},"modified":"2023-02-22T11:02:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T11:02:52","slug":"cyber-leaders-mock-twitter-decision-to-yank-2fa-for-non-subscribers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tsfactory.com\/forums\/blog\/cyber-leaders-mock-twitter-decision-to-yank-2fa-for-non-subscribers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber leaders mock Twitter decision to yank 2FA for non-subscribers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/en_us\/topics\/product\/2023\/an-update-on-two-factor-authentication-using-sms-on-twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-feathr-click-track=\"true\" data-feathr-link-aids=\"[&quot;60071024bdb3f8d0470da8d6&quot;]\">Twitter quietly announced plans<\/a> last week that it would remove two-factor authentication for all unpaid accounts in an effort, it says, to reduce abuse of phone-based 2FA by threat actors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo date, we\u2019ve offered three methods of 2FA \u2026 unfortunately we have seen phone-number based 2FA be used \u2014 and abused \u2014 by bad actors,\u201d officials said in the announcement. \u201cStarting today, we will no longer allow accounts to enroll in the text message\/SMS method of 2FA unless they are Twitter Blue subscribers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twitter is giving non-subscribers already enrolled in the 2FA phone-based method just 30 days to disable it and enroll in another authentication method. After March 20, all non-paid-subscribers will not be allowed to use text messages as a 2FA method.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, Twitter intends to disable all accounts with text message 2FA still enabled at that time. Officials are encouraging non-subscribers to use an authentication app or another security key instead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmagazine.com\/news\/identity-and-access\/cyber-leaders-mock-twitter-2fa-nonsubscribers\">Read the Full Story Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: SC Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter quietly announced plans last week that it would remove two-factor authentication for all unpaid accounts in an effort, it says, to reduce abuse of phone-based 2FA by threat actors. \u201cTo date, we\u2019ve offered three methods of 2FA \u2026 unfortunately we have seen phone-number based 2FA be used \u2014 and abused \u2014 by bad actors,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - 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