{"id":259651,"date":"2018-05-10T16:36:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T14:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=259651"},"modified":"2018-05-10T16:40:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T14:40:12","slug":"hacker-beats-two-factor-authentication-with-phishing-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/259651-hacker-beats-two-factor-authentication-with-phishing-attack.html","title":{"rendered":"Hacker beats two-factor authentication with phishing attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A security researcher has developed a social engineering attack to bypass two-factor authentication, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/05\/10\/hacker-kevin-mitnick-shows-how-to-bypass-2fa\/\">TechCrunch reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Hacker Kevin Mitnick produced a video on YouTube showing how the exploit works by\u00a0sending victims to a fake login page.<\/p>\n<p>The site requests your\u00a0username, password, and authentication code, which it passes to the legitimate site to log you in, while capturing the session cookie in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Once this is done, the hacker can log in whenever they want, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>While the attack was demonstrated on LinkedIn, Mitnick&#8217;s company KnowBe4 warned that the attack could be\u00a0weaponised for any site.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xaOX8DS-Cto\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/246044-reddit-adds-two-factor-authentication-for-all-users.html\">Reddit adds two-factor authentication for all users<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A security researcher has developed an exploit to bypass two-factor authentication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":72576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[50689,50691,38240],"class_list":["post-259651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-kevin-mitnick","tag-knowbe4","tag-two-factor-authentication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259689,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259651\/revisions\/259689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}