This latest move is an indicator of a shift in the sector away from passwords, argues Bischoff.
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While its secure protection package, Advanced Protection Programme (APP) has been on offer since 2017, Google took the decision to provide it for free for some users in response to a hack that affected up to 1,400 Gmail users, at the hands of Russian state-sponsored cybercrime group APT28, more commonly known as Cozy Bear. What is Google’s Advanced Protection Programme? This is because state-sponsored groups are more likely to go after people whose data has strategic value within their organisations, explains David Emm, principal security researcher at cybersecurity company Kaspersky.
“It seems like the free keys are mainly for business executives, as well as human rights activists, election authorities and women at high risk of online attack such as journalists, dissidents, politicians,” says Paul Bischoff, privacy advocate at cybersecurity product comparison website Comparitech. Google is providing security hardware in the form of security keys to Gmail customers who it deems “high-risk” to protect them from state-sponsored attackers trying to access their systems. Coming hot on the heels of Microsoft’s password-free identification roll-out, Google is the latest tech giant to look beyond passwords to provide improved security for customers.ġ0,000 Gmail users are being issued with physical security keys. This “high-risk” cohort contains executives as well as political activists, journalists and human rights advocates.
Google is sending security hardware to 10,000 Gmail customers who are at high risk of being hacked to protect them from phishing attacks, it was revealed this week.
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