ICYMI, the Associated Press’ Twitter account was hacked on Tuesday, leading to a bogus tweet saying that there were “two explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured.”
Zach Miners wrote for PCWorld on the ramifications of that hack, noting that “the Dow Jones industrial average took a nose dive immediately after it was posted before recovering several minutes later.” As a result, people are now calling for Twitter to use two-factor authentication, but Miners explained how hackers can still get around two-factor authentication if the Twitter user falls prey to a phising email.
The article mentioned a number of solutions, but I thought this one was quite interesting (albeit it probably unworkable):
Other ideas that have been floated to keep accounts and identifies safe online include the use of “physical” passwords, which could take the form of a piece of jewelry.
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