Google has finally admitted something alarming about the world’s one billion regular Gmail users – barely any have turned on two-step verification (2SV) security.

Seven years after 2SV first appeared, take-up is still under 10%, engineer Grzegorz Milka is reported to have told a session at the Enigma 2018 Usenix security conference.

Milka went on to mention a Google-sponsored study from November that analysed how criminals target Gmail, and why these accounts have become so highly prized, a way of saying the company isn’t happy with this status quo.

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