When hackers are faced with multi-factor authentication, they look for another weak spot – often it is the human being. For example, Office 365 users are being bombarded with push notifications requesting access. After a while they just say yes to make it stop. Now the researchers have given it a name – Multi-factor authentication […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I just watched a DoD town hall on their current thoughts on CMMC 2.0. Here are some of the highlights: CMMC 2.0 has been stripped down to NIST SP 800-171 (we already knew that) DoD has already had several meetings with NIST about adding (at least some of) the things that were in CMMC 1.0 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King (Maine) have added their names to a letter to the SEC asking them to increase the cybersecurity reporting rules for publicly traded companies. The first of potentially many new SEC rules was rolled out this week requiring investment advisors and investment companies to report cybersecurity incidents and breaches to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google Decreased Account Takeovers by 50% by Mandating 2FA Late last year Google forced about a hundred fifty million users to start using multi-factor authentication. What results did they see? Account takeovers in that group were reduced by 50%. Google has previously said that only 10% of their users were using MFA. Now they are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The False Claims Act goes back to the Civil War. My guess is, back then they were not worried about cybersecurity. Since CMMC 1.0 was introduced there were quiet rumors that the DoJ was going to use the FCA to go after contractors who lie about their cybersecurity practices. Last fall the DoJ made it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]At the tail end of the Trump administration, Congress passed a bill to get telecom carriers to remove Huawei network equipment from their networks as a national security issue – which it may well be. Congress allocated a billion plus dollars to help small telecom providers with the costs of doing that. The FCC thought […]
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