Matt Haschak

March 24, 2017

Phishing 101 at the School of Hard Knocks

This post was originally published on this siteA recent, massive spike in sophisticated and successful phishing attacks is prompting many universities to speed up timetables for deploying mandatory two-factor authentication (2FA) — requiring a one-time code in addition to a password — for access to student and faculty services online. This is the story of one university that accelerated plans to require 2FA after witnessing nearly twice as many phishing victims in the first two-and-half months of this year than it saw in all of 2015. Bowling Green State University in Ohio has more than 20,000 students and faculty, and like virtually […]