Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
My son told me this cyber security joke, this week, as suggested material for a Because It’s Friday post. So here it is: The Cyber Security Joke I tried to use beeFsteW as a password but I was told it was not stroganoff. He’s a maths teacher! Because It’s Friday …
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Having temporarily closed its doors last week to new business, PyPi – a python code repository – is now enforcing the most basic of cyber security precautions – 2FA! PyPI announces mandatory use of 2FA for all software publishers (bleepingcomputer.com) Your takeaway from this is that any essential business service …
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Multi-factor authentication stands between you and a threat actor gaining access to your services – but the attackers have come up with a simple way to subvert it. Just keep bombarding you with authentication requests until you either give in or make a mistake. If the hacker has your correct …
I wrote about the new functionality of the Google Authenticator app yesterday – but said I was going to hold off advising clients to use this functionality until I had had a look at it. I just want to look at the functionality of this new service as it will …
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I am big on MFA – whenever it is available you should use it. Although multi-factor authentication can have it’s issues, it is still an effective barrier between you and credential compromise. I do not, however, care about which authenticator app you use, as long as it comes from a …
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