Now, we have known that 2FA or 2-Factor Authentication models are already much secure than normal. This announcement of 2FA Security Key has been made by Google as part of the Titan secure elements family. It has been developed by Google and will be available on the Google Store in the US as well. This is known as the Titan Security Key and it is a hardware chip much smaller than a pen drive. For this reason, Google has introduced a new solution on top of its already available 2-factor authentication. The reason U2F keys make phishing so difficult is because the public encryption key that needs to be sent to the corresponding website when a user tries to authenticate with a U2F security key will simply not work with the fake website.Therefore, it is mandatory that the user’s security should be maintained in order to prevent unauthorized access to the user’s account. They're not just highly resistant to phishing, but they're literally as easy to use as clicking one button next to your device when you're trying to log into a website. U2F security keys have proven to be virtually invulnerable to phishing, which is why they're increasingly being adopted, even by federal U.S. Eventually, they can gain access to data hosted by certain cloud providers or enterprise companies hosting it on their own servers. Once the criminals get that code, and assuming they’ve already gotten the victim's passwords, they can then attempt to recover credentials for work-related data too. The data breaches are usually enabled by companies continuing to use legacy and unpatched software, poor security practices that don’t emphasize endpoint security strongly enough and social engineering or phishing.Īccording to Google, a common phishing attempt is to put up a fake website that pretends to be a Google service (such as Gmail) asking for a two-factor authentication code. Large companies almost seem defenseless against sophisticated attackers, although they are certainly not without blame either. These days, we seem to hear about a major data breach or leak exposing the data of millions or tens of millions of users every month or two, if not more often. Although Google is only making the Titan Key available to its cloud customers for now, it will soon sell the security key in its Play Store so anyone can get one.
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