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How To Hack Twitter's Two-Factor Authentication

Posted by timothy on from the there-can-be-only-one-or-two-or-whatever dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from PC Mag's SecurityWatch: "We've pointed out some problems with Twitter's new two-factor authentication. For example, since just one phone number can be associated with an account, Twitter's two-factor authentication won't work for organizations like the Associated Press, The Onion, or The Guardian. They were hacked; they could still be hacked again in the same way. However, security experts indicate that the problem is worse than that, a lot worse."

2 of 58 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Thank you by Zerth · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As long as stock market bots and day traders use twitter activity to guide their behavior, I care.

  2. Re:Thank you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/23/twitter-flash-crash_n_3141311.html

    The U.S. stock market crashed momentarily on Tuesday afternoon after the Associated Press' Twitter account was hacked and a hoax tweet was sent out that suggested explosions at the White House had injured President Barack Obama. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped about 150 points in a matter of seconds