Hackers are using two-factor authentication to infect you

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PUBLIC DEFENDER By Brian Livingston We’ve all seen those are-you-human tests that websites use to screen out data-scraping bots — e.g., click all the
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B. Livingston wrote:

The topic of passkeys is far beyond the scope of this column. For more information, see Susan Bradley’s February 20, 2025, article and my November 20, 2024, column.

These two links are both the same (Susan’s, not Brian’s).

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… but have now been fixed in the online newsletter to be different.

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The instructions from Perplexity did not match my version of Edge.  Version 135.0.3179.73 (Official build) (64-bit)

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This alternative answer from Perplexity seems better and works for me on that version of Edge:

How can I disable clipboard access in Microsoft Edge

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Egad!!

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