multi-factor authentication

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 […]
June 28, 2019

Microsoft to Require Multi-Factor Authentication for Cloud Solution Providers

This post was originally published on this siteIt might be difficult to fathom how this isn’t already mandatory, but Microsoft Corp. says it will soon force all Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs) that help companies manage their Office365 accounts to use multi-factor authentication. The move comes amid a noticeable uptick in phishing and malware attacks targeting CSP employees and contractors. When an organization buys Office365 licenses from a reseller partner, the partner is granted administrative privileges in order to help the organization set up the tenant and establish the initial administrator account. Microsoft says customers can remove that administrative access if they […]
June 19, 2020

Turn on MFA Before Crooks Do It For You

This post was originally published on this siteHundreds of popular websites now offer some form of multi-factor authentication (MFA), which can help users safeguard access to accounts when their password is breached or stolen. But people who don’t take advantage of these added safeguards may find it far more difficult to regain access when their account gets hacked, because increasingly thieves will enable multi-factor options and tie the account to a device they control. Here’s the story of one such incident. As a career chief privacy officer for different organizations, Dennis Dayman has tried to instill in his twin boys […]