Crain's Cleveland Business

Single Factor Authentication: A security risk and bad practice

As Cybersecurity Awareness month kicks off in October many businesses will look to improve their security posture by providing additional training to their staff or by implementing additional ...
Bleeping Computer

CISA: Don’t use single-factor auth on Internet-exposed systems

Single-factor authentication (SFA) has been added today by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to a very short list of cybersecurity bad practices it advises against. CISA's ...
WeLiveSecurity

Don’t use single-factor authentication, warns CISA

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added the use of single-factor authentication to its brief list of bad practices that it considers to be exceptionally risky when it ...
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Two-factor authentication for your financial accounts — here’s how secure it really is

A talented hacker might be able to easily crack the password for your bank account – especially if it falls under the easy-to-guess formula of your first name and last initial. However, if you have ...

Your Accounts Can Still Get Hacked, Even Using Multi-Factor Authentication

Hackers can bypass multi-factor authentication using man-in-the-middle attacks and phishing; thus, those who need utmost ...
Macworld

Should two-factor authentication let me verify via a single device?

Allen thinks something is off with Apple’s two-factor authentication (2FA) system which is a replacement for its older two-step verification system. He’s verified and MacBook and his iPhone, but notes ...