Android Police: Google’s 89,000+ employees have had zero phishing incidents since switching to hardware security keys in 2017

Monday, July 23, 2018

Google’s 89,000+ employees have had zero phishing incidents since switching to hardware security keys in 2017

Phishing attacks are deceptively successful against less experienced users, but even those that consider themselves reasonably technical can occasionally fall prey to the simple approach. According to a recent report by Krebs on Security, Google and its employees aren't among the 76% of businesses that have been victims of phishing attacks in the last year. In fact, not one of the company's employees work accounts been successfully phished since 2017, thanks to hardware 2FA security keys.

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