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It's now well known that usernames and passwords aren't enough to securely access online services.
A recent study highlighted more than 80 per cent of all hacking-related breaches happen due to compromised and weak credentials, with three billion username and password combinations stolen in 2016 alone.
The implementation of two-factor authentication — which aims to provide an additional layer of security to the relatively vulnerable system — has become a necessity.
It works too. Figures suggest users who enabled two-factor authentication ended up blocking about 99.9 per cent of automated attacks.
But as with any good cybersecurity solution, attackers can quickly come up with ways to circumvent — in this case through the one-time codes sent as an SMS to a user's smartphone.
Yet many critical online services in Australia still use SMS-based one-time codes, including myGov and the Big Four banks: ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, NAB and Westpac.
How hackers can use mirroring apps to see your texts — and bypass two-factor authentication security
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