BrianKrebs on Nostr: There are a few important preconditions necessary for this attack to work, but ...
There are a few important preconditions necessary for this attack to work, but interesting story from Wired on Google recalling some Titan 2FA security keys due to a "misconfiguration" could allow an attacker who gets w/in 30 feet of someone holding one of these keys to communicate with that key or with the device the key is paired to.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-titan-security-key-recall-ble/Published at
2024-04-15 20:28:40Event JSON
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