'Life360 Potentially Leaves Its Users’ Sensitive Data at Risk' cybersecurity data
“It doesn’t sound like they’ve done even the basics,” Jim Fenton, a consultant for NIST and a co-author of the agency’s authentication guidelines, said. “If you can use the password ‘password,’ that’s not great.”
One of the former Life360 employees told The Markup that there had been an internal debate about email validation for accounts. Verifying an email address helps prevent fraud and bots from spamming a service, and it protects users from having somebody sign up in their name. The former Life360 employee said the company decided against this measure to make it easier for people to sign up.
We changed our Life360 accounts’ emails multiple times without receiving any validation emails to make sure they were real email addresses. We also never received validation emails when signing up.Multifactor authentication prevents an attacker from being able to log in to your accounts by having just your password alone. It usually requires a second authentication method, which can be a temporary code from a text message or an authentication app, or a physical token like a USB security key.
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