Quietly, the IRS was trying to reduce the billions of dollars a year in fraud from people who pretend to be you and me and do things like steal tax refunds. They did this by making it harder to pretend to be someone you are not, including using biometrics. Some people complained that people who […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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]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]In the face of the IRS losing billions of your tax dollars every year, they instituted a plan last year to actually verify the identity of people who are logging on the the IRS’s digital websites. What a novel concept. Would you do business with a bank that would let anyone walk in, say that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Who is Interested in Attacking My Little Website? I have written about this before but it is worth repeating. I have a simple firewall on my blog sites. There is nothing terribly sensitive there; it is not connected to my company’s network, but still I continue to be amazed. Yesterday there were 1175 attacks from […]
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