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10/14/2019
The FBI Sends A Warning About Multi-Factor Authentication…And Other Small Business Tech News This Week
Forbes
Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?
1 — The FBI is warning companies about attacks that bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA).
Last month, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) shared information with private industry partners that the threat of cyber-attacks that can bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) for employees and companies is on the rise. Citing several events where hackers were able to bypass MFA, the FBI maintains that multi-factor authentication is still effective and that the alert should merely be used as a precaution, rather than discrediting the effectiveness of MFA. (Source: ZDnet)
Why this is important for your business:
As I wrote here, all of this is awful and annoying, but there's some good news: Most security experts and even the FBI still recommends using MFA. Why?
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